Test Automation: Shifting Left for Faster Releases
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Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup
Tuesday Nov 19 / 10:35AM PST
Most productivity research happens in large tech companies. Many of the lessons learned there apply to the world of Startups as well, but some don't carry over.
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Rachel Potvin
SVP Eng @Sanity.io with 25 Years in Tech, Previously @Google and @GitHub, Engineering Leader Focused on Building Productive Happy Teams
Security or Convenience - Why Not Both?
Tuesday Nov 19 / 01:35PM PST
Traditionally, security is all about creating obstacles and making it difficult to access data. This is at odds with our drive for a more smooth and faster development process. How can we keep the software we’re building secure without adding friction for engineers?
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Dorota Parad
CEO @Authress, Product and Team Builder, Test Enthusiast
Slack's AI-Powered, Hybrid Approach for Large-Scale Migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library
Tuesday Nov 19 / 05:05PM PST
With the Enzyme test framework no longer supporting React 18, migrating to React Testing Library (RTL) became imperative.
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Sergii Gorbachov
Staff Software Engineer @Slack, Specializing in AI-Driven Tools for Automating Code Migrations and Test Authorship
Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x
Tuesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST
I joined Amazon in 2009, when we were a 3000-engineer company, and got to experience its fast growth from 3k to 90k engineers over a 15-yr period. During that time, our engineering productivity needs had a number of interesting inflection points.
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Carlos Arguelles
Senior Principal Engineer @Amazon, 27 Years Experience in Developer Productivity Engineering, Previously @Google and @Microsoft
Supporting Engineering Productivity for All
Tuesday Nov 19 / 02:45PM PST
Understanding what drives software development productivity is the key to making high-impact investments in engineering productivity.
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Emerson Murphy-Hill
Research Scientist at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction, Former Googler and Professor