Nathan Jakubiak | QCon San Francisco 2018

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Speaker: Nathan Jakubiak

Director of Development @Parasoft

Nathan Jakubiak is the Director of Development for Parasoft. He has been with Parasoft since 2000 and helped build industry-leading API Testing Solution - Parasoft SOAtest from the ground up. He recently took responsibility for the Parasoft Unit Test Assistant which helps developers automate the creation of Java-based unit tests.

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Talk : Efficient and Sustainable Unit Testing

Track : Sponsored Solutions Track II

Location : Bayview AB

Duration : 2:55pm - 3:45pm

"I hate unit testing!" Many developers feel this way, but why? We know we should write unit tests, but many of our codebases are not well tested due to the complexity and time it takes to write and maintain the tests. But there is good news – modern technologies and testing practices can make unit testing more efficient, palatable, and sustainable! In this session, Nathan will use real-world examples to describe how development teams can make unit testing work.

Topics include: Tooling that can generate portions of the unit test code, along with configuration of mocks, to make creating the tests easier and more efficient.

How to identify and run just the tests that are impacted by code changes within the IDE before code is committed to source control, and how to configure pull request workflows and CI test runs to only run the tests impacted by the code changes since the last full build, for cases where running all the unit tests takes too much time.

How to augment the unit test practice by collecting code coverage metrics from automated functional and UI test jobs, to increase coverage in areas of the code that are difficult to cover by unit tests.

Tracks

Monday, 5 November

Microservices / Serverless Patterns & Practices

Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking

Practical approaches using DevOps & Lean Thinking
JavaScript & Web Tech

Beyond JavaScript in the Browser. Exploring WebAssembly, Electron, & Modern Frameworks
Modern CS in the Real World

Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probabilistic programming
Modern Operating Systems

Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualization, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals

Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC

Tuesday, 6 November

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, & more
21st Century Languages

Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
Emerging Trends in Data Engineering

Showcasing DataEng tech and highlighting the strengths of each in real-world applications.
Bare Knuckle Performance

Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
Socially Conscious Software

Building socially responsible software that protects users privacy & safety
Delivering on the Promise of Containers

Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices

Wednesday, 7 November

Applied AI & Machine Learning

Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more
Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems

More than just building software, building deployable production ready software
Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness

Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand.
Security: Lessons Attacking & Defending

Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
Future of Human Computer Interaction

IoT, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
Enterprise Languages

Workhorse languages found in modern enterprises. Expect Java, .NET, & Node in this track

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