Announcement of the Heisenbag 2017 Moscow: double the benefits



    In 2016, the Heisenbag Testing Conference was held for the first time in Moscow - then it lasted one day. In December, the conference will be held in Moscow for the second time - and will become a two-day one. If you recall the xkcd issue about extrapolation, it turns out that the Heisenbag-2380 will last all year round! But seriously, we are ready to announce a new event. Under the cat we tell you in detail what exactly to expect on December 8-9 .

    Two day format


    Moving to a two-day conference is not just “the same two days in a row.” When there is only one day and a lot of interesting speakers, I want to contain as many reports as possible in principle. And when everything is not so rigidly limited in time, there is an opportunity to “breathe deeply” - for example, to take longer breaks between reports.

    And then other components of the event, like discussion zones, become more useful. Each speaker after his report goes to a specially equipped place where there is an opportunity to answer the questions of the audience in plenty (and not as usual when the questions are given five minutes at the end of the speech). And in the case of short breaks, asking one speaker, it is easy to miss the report of another, while longer ones help to be in time everywhere.

    Breaks are also useful for something else: chatting with colleagues, participating in activities at the stands, or just taking a break from the flow of information, then returning freshened and learning more. And even viewers of online broadcasts who are not personally present at the conference will not have to get bored during long breaks: for them we are going to do live interviews with speakers.

    So the number of reports will increase compared to last year, but not twice - but the benefits of attending a conference may well double.



    Topics


    No fundamental changes are planned here: it is still a "conference on testing, but not only for testers." We want to benefit different specialists, not building a wall between testers and developers, but helping them find a common language. We are interested in testing in all its manifestations: at least automated, at least manually, from mobile to game dev, from the nuances of stress testing to general tips that are useful to everyone (we’ll try to indicate as clearly as possible to whom each report is, so that you don’t happen to be inappropriately for you).

    The only thing we don’t want is bullshit: useless marketing reports, slurred discussions about anything, chewing on the basics. We are for the technical specifics.

    Speakers


    The list of speakers is being formed, and the final one will be ready closer to the conference. But we can already name a number of names that give a general idea of ​​“what to expect”:

    Simon Stewart is known as a member of the Selenium team and the creator of WebDriver. It is not surprising that the topic of the report on Heisenbug will be related to Selenium: it will be about scaling when using it. What problems can be encountered when the number of tests rushes into space, and how to solve these problems?

    Artyom Eroshenko is directly related to the Allure project, and in June at the Heisenbug St. Petersburg his report on Allure 2 turned out to be a favorite of the audience. But Artyom’s interests are not limited to Allure - and a speech at the Moscow conference is likely to be dedicated to something new.

    Ilari Henrik EgerterHe performed at both Heisenbags (Moscow and St. Petersburg), both of his performances were pleasant to the public - it is not surprising that we will be glad to see him in the third (and find out how long his beard will be this time). However, we also received comments that his two speeches were too intersecting with each other. Consider this: the third will not be a repetition of the first two.

    Vladimir Sitnikov is an expert in performance issues. Many people know him as a committer for the JMeter stress testing tool, but in December he will talk about something else. Often, the words "performance testing" mean only testing the server side, and the browser itself is tested much less often - Vladimir intends to eliminate the injustice and reveal this topic on Heisenbug.

    Nikolai Alimenkov in June at the St. Petersburg heisenbug navol rustle of his stormy discussion with Alexei Vinogradov and his report when received by the audience very good reviews. In Moscow in December, he will also be very active: not only will he give a report, he will also conduct training (read about this below).

    Aleksey Lavrenyuk is known for his work on the Yandex.Tank project, and it is not surprising that in St. Petersburg Heisenbug talked about stress testing. But Alexey also understands mobile testing - so do not be surprised if the theme of his winter performance in Moscow will be very different.

    Anton Arkhipov, which Java developers could already see at our Java conferences, will talk about how TestContainers helps to cope with the urgent problem of deploying a test environment for integration testing.

    Nikita Makarov is the head of the testing automation group at Odnoklassniki. And this means that his speeches are becoming obviously interesting: when working on such a gigantic project, you inevitably get a lot of valuable experience, so there is something to share.


    Distance report


    In addition to these speakers, there is another special case. James Bach can talk so lively and lively about testing that one of his speeches has collected hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube:



    Apparently, the narrator’s talent is from his father: James is the son of Richard Bach, famous for the story “The Seagull named Jonathan Livingston”. In general, we would be happy to see him on Heisenbag, but the only option in which his speech at the conference is possible is a live online broadcast. Earlier, we did not perform in this format and we don’t know exactly how interesting it is for you, so we want to find out from you. If you have an opinion on this, click on one of the three options here .

    Training of Nikolai Alimenkov


    Event related to the conference: on the next two days, December 10-11, Nikolai Alimenkov ’s training “Secrets of successful test automation” will be held . This is a separate event with separate tickets (their sale will begin later) - but this is a convenient opportunity, having allocated four days in a row, to improve your qualifications in full, starting from the conference and continuing with the training.

    Call for papers




    If you also want to see your name in the list of speakers, now is the time to submit a report to us ! Our strict program committee includes only really good performances in the program, but the same committee also helps the speakers to bring their promising developments to an appropriate level - therefore, even if you do not have relevant experience, but have an interesting topic, do not be afraid to contact.

    And if you have experience, refer to the video recordings of the reports that you made earlier, and this will greatly accelerate the decision of the program committee.

    The main requirement: your report should be useful to other testers / developers. We are interested in the following topics:

    • Test automation;
    • Stress Testing;
    • Performance testing, benchmarking;
    • Integration testing of modular / distributed systems;
    • Concurrency testing;
    • Testing mobile applications;
    • Manual testing;
    • UX, Security, A / B, static code analysis, code and product metrics, etc .;
    • Instrumentation, testing environment;
    • Comparison of testing tools;
    • Testing in gamedev.

    Program and registration


    Until December, the program will have many more reports, and first of all information about them will be published on the conference website . So if you need more information, just drop by. But those who decide already now have an important advantage: tickets will gradually go up in price, so now is the best time to get a ticket.


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