Biography

Fabian is an award-winning senior technologist with more than a decade of experience in technology and nearly two decades in the finance industry. He has worked as a project manager, business analyst, application manager, and software developer. In the past, he has built applications such as online banking solutions, as well as research and automated trading systems for banks in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and United Kingdom. He is passionate about Agile methodologies and building data-driven automated decision-making systems. He cares about clean code and the continuous delivery of quality software.

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Quality Assurance 101

Crawl, walk, run, fly. In exactly that order. In this talk, we will go back to the crawling stage of quality assurance. This talk is a reminder of the baby steps we must do before we start flying with a fully automated integration test suite that is hooked into our automated deployment pipeline. We will discuss what a good unit test is and what a bad one is and why it matters. Discuss good quality assurance habits and bad ones. After this talk partitioners will know and/or remember the fundamentals of writing high-quality automated tests and software.

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