Wyn Van Devanter
Sr. Developer
Excella Consulting
location_on United States
Member since 6 years
Share
Wyn Van Devanter
Specialises In (based on submitted proposals)
-
keyboard_arrow_down
How Containers Can Make You More Agile
45 Mins
Case Study
Beginner
Containers have been talked about a lot the last few years, and they are becoming a staple of big modernization projects and cloud architectures. In what ways can they make your team more agile and able to deliver software faster? When software is built using containers, on one end they can quickly give a jolt to developer productivity in standardizing their development platform and getting things running quickly. Eventually, on the other end, when your cloud architecture can fully support well-managed containers in production, ops can more easily manage the software since its standardized in containers, and it significantly clarifies the DevOps interaction.
We'll go into the details of why containers and its surrounding cloud technology is being asked about by so many executives to stay competitive, and what the short and long term benefits are across an organization. -
-
keyboard_arrow_down
Going Green: Getting and keeping your build pipeline green
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
A build pipeline is such an important aspect of a software project. It saves a ton of manual, error-prone depoyment work, as well as results in higher quality software that can be released more frequently.
However, I have been on multiple projects where one of the steps in the continuous integration process was failing (red), often for multiple days or even perpetually. So much of the benefit a build pipeline provides is lost when this is allowed to happen. Bugs are not caught by automated tests; additional tests break without being fixed because no one notices; the culture of keeping a green pipeline diminishes and faith in everything from the pipeline itself to automated tests reduces. Developers learn bad habits.
Building the pipeline and getting all steps working (keeping it green!) is no small feat in the first place, and keeping it that way can also be a large undertaking. One way I have tried to combat this is to institute some specific process for the Scrum team, pertaining to monitoring and maintaining the build pipeline. There is also an aspect of convincing the team and management that it is worth spending the time, and dropping everything to maintain a fully functional pipeline.
Join me for a common sense, tactile approach to keep a build pipeline green that has worked on small and larger projects with multiple teams.
-
-
keyboard_arrow_down
A Thin Automation Framework for Managable Automated Acceptance Testing
60 Mins
Demonstration
Intermediate
Automated Acceptance Tests (AAT) can provide huge value, and can automate time-consuming tasks like regression testing, but aren't easy to scale. Have you tried implementing them only to abandon them later? Are they fragile? Do they give a lot of false positives? Do they take more time to write than the value you're getting out of them? These are common problems with automated acceptance testing, but there are ways to mitigate these issues. One great way is to create a very thin automation framework that helps you write the tests faster while reducing the fragility. Wyn will walk through writing a thin automation framework, illustrating a test-driven approach that yields a framework appropriate for the software being tested. The resulting tests are very clean and readable, and they become faster and faster to write as the framework evolves. He will use C# and Selenium but the concepts are applicable to other languages and browser automation frameworks. He will also illustrate simple approaches that reduce the fragility and maintenance costs of the tests. Participants will come away knowing how to get started on an automation framework that will be easy to understand and maintain, and that should scale as much as needed. -
-
No more submissions exist.