Registration, Tea & Coffee

Welcome and Short Introduction to Sponsors
Programme Chairman: Paul Gerrard, Gerrard Consulting

Case Study 1: App Automation in an Agile World - A real world case study
Andrew Fullen, Sogeti UK Ltd
A real world case study Andrew Fullen, Managing Consultant, Sogeti UK During this session Sogeti's Managing Consultant, Andrew Fullen, will present a real world case study focusing on how to successfully move from a manual agile practice for mobile testing to an automated agile framework. He will cover the processes that his team followed and the challenges that they overcame, in order to deliver a successful automated mobile testing project.

Without Testing there is no Continuous Delivery
Rob Vanstone, Technical Consultant, XebiaLabs Ltd.  
It’s all very well churning out our new agile features with the intention of getting them to our paying customers faster and with less effort but if we’re not testing in an automated fashion then we’re not “doing Continuous Delivery”.  Worse still, if we’re not even testing but still claiming we are doing continuous delivery then we’ve just hired our customers as testers, and they can be very expensive.  In this session we will cover some background as to why early testing is important to Continuous Delivery and show you our experiences in this area with a real customer story of the challenges faced and how they were overcome.

Tea and Coffee

Case Study 2: BDD approach – aiming for Zero Known Defects: providing delivery certainty while having fun
Colin Deady, Capita IT Professional Services
Behaviour Driven Development has enjoyed great success in recent years. In this talk I will demonstrate that if adopted correctly BDD can be combined with a team-led Zero Known Defects approach to help achieve delivery certainty: delivering working software, first time, every time. Is fixing every defect achievable without breaking budget or the team?

Round Table Session 1
- Participants join a table to discuss one or more of the Conference themes - (Agile Testing; Mobile Testing; Test Automation; Testing in Continuous Delivery; BDD, Performance Testing, etc.)  Each table has a "Topic Guru" to facilitate the discussion.

Lunch

Invitation to Drinks Reception
NCC Group

Case Study 3: Test Environments for Continuous Delivery
Clement Pickering, Head of Development, Callcredit
Frequently challenging, test environments are critical to the successful delivery of any software development project. The aim of the talk will be to discuss approaches to dealing with this challenge, and empower testers and project teams to take control of their own environments. And why pre-production may be an anti-pattern and possible alternatives…

Case Study 4: Evolution of Testing for Mobile Platforms BBC Future Media
Paul Rutter, Test Manager for Mobile Platforms, BBC Future Media
A look at how Testing for Mobile Platforms has evolved over the past 3 years in BBC Future Media. Focusing on native applications this talk will cover how the team, our approach, methodologies, frameworks and ways of working have evolved to keep up with the breakneck pace of Mobile application development and delivery.

Tea and Coffee

Round Table Session 2
- Participants join a table to discuss one or more of the Conference themes - (Agile Testing; Mobile Testing; Test Automation; Testing in Continuous Delivery; BDD, Performance Testing, etc.)  Each table has a "Topic Guru" to facilitate the discussion.

How to Test the Internet of Everything
Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting
Paul will give a perspective for the scale, the variety, ubiquity, complexity and challenge of the technological wave that many people believe will dominate our industry for the next ten to twenty years. The architecture of the IoE is emerging and this talk presents a seven-layer architectural model that will help you to make sense of the IoT and also expose some of the technical risks we need to focus on as testers. Some recommendations for formulating a test strategy for the Internet of Everything are presented.

Summary and Final Discussion
Conference Chairperson: Paul Gerrard, Gerrard Consulting

Drinks Reception

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