mabl Experience 2023

The way that we deliver software continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, thanks to DevOps, cloud computing, and now generative AI. To better seize the opportunities created by these transformations, development organizations need robust quality strategies that enable them to embrace new technologies while delivering high-quality digital experiences.

This keynote, led by mabl co-founder Dan Belcher, will explore the possibilities presented to quality leaders by these transformations. He’ll showcase why software testing is the cornerstone for future-proofing development pipelines, delve into how AI and low-code are game-changers to establishing and maintaining test coverage, and give a sneak peek into the future of mabl’s unified platform.

Quality teams are looking for new strategies to expand the impact of their initiatives and enable their companies to innovate with high quality. However, many teams struggle to determine which changes  to prioritize next: some start by integrating testing further left into development pipelines, others by expanding testing participation to all team members, and yet others by integrating non-functional testing into their automation strategy.

In this panel, you’ll learn directly from QA leaders who navigated these transitions: their journeys, the challenges they faced along the way and lessons they learned, how they managed change, and their perspectives on the evolution of their testing strategies.

Stack Overflow’s 2023 Developer Survey found that 55% of respondents are interested in using AI for testing, the highest level of interest across all use cases. Yet less than 3% highly trust the output of AI tools, juxtaposing the important role of testing to ensure product quality with the reliability of existing AI tools. Quality teams need strategies to harness the potential of generative AI, nurture their skills in this critical emerging field, and still build trust in software testing.

Join mabl AI experts Lauren Clayberg and John Kinnebrew to explore the frontiers of AI in quality engineering. They’ll share how quality professionals can harness generative AI in their testing strategies while minimizing risk, break down available AI tools, and give a preview into the future of AI at mabl.

Community Brands supports thousands of associations and non-profits across the world with their member-management platform. Building and optimizing seamless user experiences across multiple QA teams and applications are critical to engaging clients and members. With 21 products, Community Brands built strong quality processes but looked to standardize those across QA teams.

When it comes to defining testing processes that ensure quality across applications, Community Brands worked to build a process and strategy with scalability and consistency in mind. In this session, Douglas will share Community Brand’s journey to standardizing testing processes across Agile teams and applications with the goal of efficiency in mind.

Quality engineering works best when it’s a company-wide effort, which is why mabl is designed to foster collaboration across developers, testers, and other team members. With mabl’s unified platform, everyone has the tools and the data they need to improve the customer experience. However, keeping mabl workspaces organized and ensuring every adopts standard approaches can be challenging.

This session will help new and expert mabl users alike set up their workspace for testing at scale. Learn how to create efficient workflows for onboarding new team members, managing the mabl workspace as testing scales, and maintain an effective test automation strategy in the long-term.  

Mabl is a passionate community of builders, innovators, and of course, testers. (Seriously, ask how many mablers have experience in QA and testing.) That passion and commitment to building the future of quality translates into a holistic testing approach behind-the-scenes. Join mabl Quality Engineer Dani Paul for a look at how mabl uses our test automation platform to build a culture of quality, drive testing success, and integrate testing into development cycles.

Dani will share practical tips and tricks from the testing trenches to help quality professionals make the most of the mabl test automation platform. See how mabl developers and quality engineers collaborate throughout the software development lifecycle, learn to build resilient low-code tests, and discover the testing strategy behind the product. 

Organizations focused on accelerating development cycles and optimizing their user experiences must be focused on building a culture of quality within their organizations. A critical pillar of a quality culture: diverse and inclusive teams that foster personal and organizational success. Diverse teams are 30% more likely to out-perform, and 19% more likely to enjoy higher revenue compared to less diverse organizations. Resilient Coders is on a mission to reinvent tech talent pipelines for stronger teams, greater meritocracy, and a brighter future. Join this session to understand how to build a quality, inclusive development organization and how Resilient Coders is transforming the tech industry.

Mabl is on a mission to empower enterprise teams to deliver high-quality software at scale, and we recognize the potential of quality engineering to help companies embrace DevOps, cloud computing, and generative AI to deliver innovations and lead their industries.

Join this keynote to hear directly from the mablers enabling the future of quality engineering: from extending the scope of test coverage beyond functional quality, to ensuring high-quality experiences across platforms, to leveraging AI to exponentially improve coverage and reliability.

Modern tech startups thrive on the developer mindset of “just ship it,” which allows companies to adapt quickly to customers’ needs and deliver the best experience. However, as these same companies scale and code changes can impact a much wider coverage area, how do they avoid gridlocks due to testing and allow experimentation to continue?

In this session, Credora.io’s Engineering Lead Suraj Chawda will share details of his journey to find Quality Engineering tools, along with details of the technology stack and processes his team put together to ensure high quality while encouraging fast experimentation at Credora.

43% of software developers say that testing is their biggest pain point during development. Headaches created by time-consuming, high-maintenance automated tests can be frustrating, but the delays or defects created by insufficient testing can have costly consequences on the business. Teams need tools and strategies to make testing possible for developers without slowing them down.

This session will share how mabl helps developers reconcile the demands of faster development with consumer demand for quality products. Learn how to use the mabl CLI for regular testing, expand testing across CI/CD pipelines with native integrations, and improve collaboration using branching and version control. You’ll also learn how mabl transforms testing data into quality insights that help teams fix defects faster.

The QA team at Wurl has a keen focus on meeting customer demands. They align sprints and feature development with customer requirements, demanding a quality strategy that prioritizes enhancing the customer experience.

In this session, Pradgnya will share her team’s journey and transformation over the past 4 years, including adjustments to processes, improvements in infrastructure, and team dynamics in the evolution from a solo QA professional to an in-house team of QA Engineers. She will delve into the significance of regression testing within her quality strategy, outlining the steps her team took to reduce regression testing time by 75%.

Extending the reach of software testing means adopting new ways to measure success. As quality teams break down silos and increase their impact on development practices, they need to embrace a blended approach to testing metrics that incorporate time-tested QA metrics with established frameworks like Google’s DORA metrics and flow metrics.

TrustCloud Director of Quality Assurance Jessica Mosley will share how she built a culture of quality by balancing DORA metrics, flow metrics, and traditional QA metrics. She’ll explore how shared metrics can help development teams create common goals, help quality professionals evaluate engineering metrics for QE success, and explore best practices for effective feedback loops. 

A healthy (not a perfect) test suite is important for QA teams who rely on automation to accomplish the heavy lifting of testing in teams that implement CI/CD practices. For small teams, that importance is arguably even more critical as the ratio of work:testers skews high; there are only so many hours in the day after all, and small QA teams often handle duties that run the gamut from solving customer issues to evaluating new SaaS vendors.

So how does a team of 2 manage an automated test suite that runs constantly against 200 feature flags, multiple development environments, and three distinct codebases? We’ll break down how we started, highlight a few important process pivots and pains we encountered along the way, and talk about how we learned to see test maintenance as an opportunity more than a chore.

Today’s testing landscape is crowded with tools promising to automate and optimize the effort out of testing. But the majority of these tools fail to address the full needs of a true quality engineering practice: clear objectives, upskilling opportunities, and a roadmap to shared success.

In this session, Abstracta’s US Country Manager, Darrel Farris, will explore the human side of software testing, and how quality teams can expand their reach. He’ll share how teams can overcome common obstacles to expanding testing, how to set clear goals, upskill testing teams, and ensure your team is truly ready to transform testing.

Navigating the ever-evolving tech landscape is essential for today's leaders, but it can be a daunting task: leaders must balance between adopting new technologies to drive team efficiency and knowing when to make strategic investments that yield maximum benefits for their teams.

In this session, GitLab's Solutions Architect Regnard Raquedan will explore crucial topics, including digital transformation, DevSecOps, Application and API Modernization, and Continuous Testing. He’ll help you upskill your expertise in these areas, provide valuable insights and resources for further learning, and cover the benefits of a modern integrated toolset. As a software leader, you can leverage your organizational goals to not only modernize tools and processes, but also as opportunities for professional development.

Building better, more inclusive customer experience demands closing the gap between accelerating delivery cycles and non-functional testing. With one billion people living with some form of disability, development teams can’t afford silos between accessibility testing and development cycles. But accessibility testing often demands specialized tools, which are costly and time-consuming to implement.

Join Google Developer Expert and accessibility leader Eva Ferreira to learn more about accessibility testing, integrating accessibility checks into your software development and testing processes, and using qualitative metrics to track accessibility improvements across the entire team. 

Migrating a complex product from Angular to React can be an extremely challenging project. It typically involves rewriting a substantial portion of the codebase, which breaks existing test automation scripts, and it also requires thorough testing to ensure that no regressions are introduced.

In this session, iCIMS’s Senior Director of Engineering Abuzar Amini will share their journey through this massive 2-year project, the multitude of challenges that significantly impacted developer productivity, and how mabl provided a game-changing solution to ensure the high-quality expected by their customers in a developer-friendly way.

Extending the reach of quality engineering means finding new ways to engage developers in testing - without slowing their ability to build and ship new features. Open-source framework Playwright is a powerful tool for getting feedback early in the development process via unit testing. When used in conjunction with mabl’s low-code test automation platform, Playwright becomes a pillar of continuous testing that complements comprehensive end-to-end testing that reflects the user experience in mabl. By leveraging both test automation frameworks, quality engineers and developers can work together to increase test coverage and embrace continuous testing.

Mabl engineer, author, and 4-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Dario Kondratiuk will share strategies for improving the developer experience and the user experience with Playwright + mabl. 

Embarking on a quest for quality can be treacherous in the complex world of test automation. Evolving requirements, development bottlenecks, and varying team constraints can seem overwhelming, especially for QA teams relying mostly on hands-on testing. But nothing makes a quest easier than a roadmap created with the wisdom of other quality heroes.

Join SmugMug's intrepid heroes – Senior Engineering Manager Janet Bracewell, Staff QE/ Manager Chris Skopec, and Android Developer Devin Corrigall – on their epic quest for quality. They’ll explore how they went from testing their website and mobile apps by hand to hundreds of automated test cases, overcame the beast of test maintenance, joined forces with developers to conquer their testing goals, and unleashed the power of CI/CD. Hear about their trials, tribulations, and triumphs with test automation in this thrilling tale - and learn how to battle your own quality challenges in the process!