Make More 💰 Money with Less 🛠Effort: 🧪 Experimentation Before Implementation
Presented by: Scott Showalter
Developing apps is time consuming, with little guarantee of success. The Web, App Store, Google Play and beyond are littered with apps making low or no revenue because they don't solve problems people actually care about. Before you build your “killer” ap, how can you truly know beyond the...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateBringing Order to Chaos
Presented by: Scott Connerly
So, you find yourself coding in a code base that has some warts. OK, let's be honest, its a steaming pile of gum and toothpicks you're afraid to touch lest it might fall apart. How do you get from there to ... anywhere, let alone viable, architecturally useful, and stable? In this talk, we'll...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateBy Our Powers Combined: Observability for Developers
Presented by: Aaron Aldrich
The world of maintaining applications is shifting. Our Systems Administrators aren't monitoring our application servers, it's the SREs determining SLIs and SLOs for our Micro-Services and making sure our Cloud-Distributed systems are Observable in near-real time. It's enough for buzzword burnout....
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediatePostman Delivers! A Deep Dive into API Testing.
Presented by: Bob Crowley
Whether you are a tester or a developer of HTTP API’s, chances are you are already using Postman to some degree. Chances are also that you are missing out on some of the advanced goodness. Using only features of the free version, this session introduces you to effective use of these features to...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateSell Yourself With a Software Quality Portfolio
Presented by: Aaron Glass
Finding new job opportunities can be stressful and intimidating. Talking about yourself might not be in your domain. Questions of uncertainty may arise. How do I make myself more marketable? How do I separate myself from the rest of the pack? How do I keep myself fresh? ...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateTesting your UI Components
Presented by: Avindra Fernando
When our clients give us kudos for releasing high quality applications, it makes us happy. To achieve great levels of quality, we need to thoroughly test our applications. But we know that some forms of testing can be expensive and tedious at times. Unit and integration tests help overcome some of...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateHey, You Got Your TDD in my SQL DB!
Presented by: Jeff McKenzie
When should we test our data? From an application development perspective, a unit test against a database isn't a unit test at all. Which makes sense -- connected systems introduce overhead and dependency, both of which reduce stability and decrease productivity during test-driven development (TDD)....
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateTest-driven development: save your time, save your sanity, write great code fast
Presented by: Paul Roub
For the skeptical: Both new and more-seasoned devs -- especially solo practitioners -- can have a lot of misconceptions about TDD. Mostly of the "it's extra work, it's extra code, I can't ship tests, why would I test something simple and obvious" variety. But magic happens when the light bulb...
Format: General SessionLevel: Intermediate