35 years ago, Eliyahu Goldratt introduced the Theory of Constraints (ToC) in his seminal book "The Goal" as a new management paradigm for manufacturing plants, struggling with excess inventory, late deliveries, poor quality. The ToC solved this through five focusing steps - a guideline to systematic improvement and continuous learning.

Today, the ToC is one of the pillars of the DevOps movement. This talk will present its principles, and how it applies to the software industry, through a mix of…

This talk will provide insights for a successful integration of lean-quality management to scaled agile projects. We will show based on our project experience that by improving process quality, higher product quality is achieved, resulting in significantly increased customer satisfaction. We will share how the lean principles and an easy-to-use toolkit helped us to tackle complex problems by providing a proven and scalable approach for continuous improvement and boost business agility at the…

80% of machine learning is said to be data wrangling. Is all this wasted effort? Hardly - often the journey really is its own reward.

In this talk, we'll briefly describe a machine learning project that predicts the outcome of test cases in a large-scale software development cycle. We'll then show what we gained from collecting the necessary data and how these insights can have lasting impact on the day-to-day work of developers, testers and architects. This includes a quick answer to the…

AI is maybe the most powerful tool our generation has available. Andrew NG called it "the new electricity". But what does it take to build AI enabled products? What are the key elements to achieve production grade AI? How does it impact your development process? How can quality be achieved? These are the questions this talk tries to answer. You will get an idea why the industry is talking about nothing less than a paradigm shift when it comes to developing AI based products.

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Whether evolution or revolution, or yet old wine in new skins, for more than 10 years, DevOps is changing how we develop and deliver software. This session looks back on the roots of DevOps, its movement until today, and current as well as possible future directions. This interactive session aims to offer a set of fruitful starting points for reflection and discussions.

Target Audience: Anyone interested in developing and delivering software
Prerequisites: Knowledge in DevOps and agile software…

The Test Pyramid is an efficient and effective approach for Software Testing but does not come with any details about concrete test methods or fixtures.

In my talk I will show you how to combine the principles of the Test Pyramid and the C4 Model for Software Architecture to elaborate a specific test strategy for your software product in a simple manner.

Target Audience: Architects, Developers, QA Engineers
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in Software Architecture and QA Engineering
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Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) started in 2017 with “Group Digital Solutions” a journey in order not to oversleep the digitization of the banking industry.

Due to new approaches such as DevSecOps & Continuous Testing, the topic of software tests, whether manual or automated, had to be completely redesigned and implemented.

This talk gives insights into the test strategy & the fullstack test automation architecture that were used.

Target audience: testers, developers, architects, managers
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Throw a line of code into many codebases and it’s sure to hit one or more testing frameworks. There’s no shortage of frameworks for testing, each with their particular spin and set of conventions and, but that glut is not always matched by a clear vision of how to structure and use tests — a framework is a vehicle, but you still need to know how to drive.

Compared to many languages, C++ has had slower widespread adoption of unit testing. This talk takes a deep dive into the practices and…

Autonomous and automated systems are increasingly being used in IT such as finance, but also transport, medical surgery and industry automation. Yet, the distrust in their reliability is growing. This presentation introduces the validation of autonomous systems. We evaluate in practical situations such as automatic driving and autonomous robots different validation methods. The conclusion: Classic methods are relevant for coverage in defined situations but must be supplemented with cognitive…