SQA Days 15 Most Communicative Testers Conference Dies Out

    SQA Days-15 is already behind us, but the impressions of both the organizers and the participants are incredibly many. After all, this conference opened new names, put on the shelves many topics in the field of testing, shared the latest Russian and foreign trends in the field and caused a lot of flattering reviews.

    Those who are too lazy to read the text can watch the review video of the conference:


    But if you could not attend it, it is better to find a couple of minutes to find out what the participants think about SQA Days-15.


    SQA Days is the most massive conference for QA-specialists, on which the feet themselves are held to meet with colleagues again, to listen to wonderful reports ... There are not enough words to describe, you just need to go. Organization, as always, at the highest level. It is difficult to compare the reports of previous conferences with this one, but, in my opinion, the level of reports has leveled off, plus the level of presenting the material has increased: “typical presentation errors, which were mentioned earlier, became much less
    - this is how one of the participants Andrey Ladutko describes his impressions of the conference (Full review: http://qastugama.blogspot.ru ).



    SQA Days - a marathon of reports that change the professional view of testers for the better


    According to the tradition that has developed over the years of SQA Days, the conference was held in 3 streams: 2 sessional (40-minute reports) and 1 blitz. At the same time, the participants in the event received not just theoretical reasoning, but were able to understand specific cases and practices in various projects, which is especially important for the work of testers.

    “It is gratifying to note that the conference is developing. It has more technical reports. And their quality has also improved: speakers understand that the cases and methods of work described are one of the possible in the industry, and they are trying to position them. And this is a consequence of the work of the program committee, which not only selects reports, but also works with speakers on crystallization, identifying meanings. At the same time, the conference does not go into an event for advanced testers, it justifies its motto “SQA Days - the point of growth of your career” ”
    - Maxim Tsepkov notes in his review. (Full review: lib.custis.ru/SQAdays-15-mtsepkov ) -
    “From my point of view, the reports at the conference fully, representatively represent the range of applied processes and technologies in the industry. And at the general, value level, and in practice. And the authors understand that they show one of the options. In addition, in some reports there is an attempt to understand why it happened that way. ”




    A number of reports were especially noted by the conference participants:

    - Dmitry Shtepur “Cross-browser testing with popularization of HTML5 and CSS3. Internet Explorer, not like everyone else ”for its brevity and capacity of speech (conference winner);
    - Sergey Mikhalev “House House approach in testing query optimization” for exceptionally useful practical advice;
    - Alexey Lyanguzov “Successful tester. The path of a professional ”for value for“ self-realization ”in the field of testing;
    - Igor Bondarenko “Crystal Agile, or how we adapted the development process to ensure maximum quality” for a fascinating story about the Agile process mutation during adaptation to the features of the project.

    Video reports are available on the program page .conferences, reports continue to be laid out as soon as ready.



    Speakers were especially useful for newcomers to the testing industry:

    - Inna Smirnova, “Researching bugs: learning from Sherlock Holmes!” with a good presentation and structure of the report;
    - Ekaterina Zasukhina “Automation for lazy testers. Selenium + Python + Behave (BDD) ”with tips on how to deploy a simple system for creating and supporting autotests;
    - Sergey Ostapenkov “Quality Assurance: Practical Tips” - a step-by-step guide on the implementation of testing at all levels of the project.



    The trump card of SQA Days was the report and subsequent 8-hour training of Michael Bolton - the experience of a foreign colleague aroused special interest among the participants in the conference.

    “There were a lot of great speakers at the SQA Days-15 conference in Moscow, but the invitation to the Michael Bolton anniversary conference is a cherry on a delicious cake”
    (http://qastugama.blogspot.com/2014/04/training-michael-bolton-critical-thinking.html).



    The quality of the reports, their diversity and practical approach was noted by many participants in the conference, which we were very pleased with the organizers. So, SQA Days is moving in the right direction and it will only get better!

    For those who, for whatever reason, could not appear on SQA Days 15, even if they have to bite their elbows, nevertheless, familiarization with the recording of reports will help to partially catch up! We also recommend viewing presentations (also available on the conference program page ).

    In the meantime, to get even more inspired by the atmosphere of SQA Days-15, you can see photos from the conference:www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.289845727846915.1073741831.247977782033710&type=1
    www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.289452361219585.1073741830.247977782033710&type=3
    www.facebook.com/media/set/ ? set = a.290536051111216.1073741832.247977782033710 & type = 3

    And some more flattering reviews

    Did not leave indifferent SQA Days participants and such components as the atmosphere and technical equipment of the event that developed at the conference:

    “Personally, I really liked SQA Days # 15: the professional atmosphere, the useful content of the reports, the excellent fan zone (especially the loud virtual reality that makes my knees tremble)!”
    - Natalya Savastyuk shared her impressions of the conference on her blog (Full review: natalia-savastiuk.blogspot.ru/2014/04/sqa-days-15.html ).





    For our part, we, as the organizers of SQA Days, thank all the speakers and conference participants for their interest in the event. We also received a lot of impressions and were inspired by new ideas for the future, so this is probably not our last meeting with us - we will continue to improve the testing sphere together!



    And who, besides testing, is also interested in IT analytics, we are waiting for those at the conference of business and system analysts .

    Also popular now: