XMind

10 Disruptive Techs

1. Speaker : John Montgomery (Utest)

   1. Subtopic 1

2. Mobile Apps are disruptive

   1. Taken over the board room

   2. Productivity

   3. Collaboration

   4. Medical apps

   5. e.g - apps

   6. e.g - tablets

   7. Testing on these devices becomes problematic

   8. How do you keep up with Mobile Operating Systems

      1. Standards lag behind

      2. Lots of platforms

      3. Maybe require unique hardware or expertise

3. Tablet Apps

   1. goldman sachs predict growth by 500%

   2. Tablet optimized

   3. Work properly

   4. Private and Secure

   5. Speed

   6. It's going to be a fight

4. 4G

   1. Speed and mobility

   2. Consumers will have more choice

   3. more data transfer options

   4. You will be more tethered to your work with mobile

   5. It's going to become cheaper

   6. Testing will be more about usability, performance and security

   7. Tough decision on what to support? (i.e. 6 etc)

5. HTML 5

   1. How and When to move to it

   2. Faster than HTML

   3. Rich environment but more mobile enabled

   4. Flash roadmap is not looking good

   5. May need retrainin as tech shifts

6. Cloud

   1. Seems to be the future

   2. Backend Server Testing

      1. Hard to manage

      2. Resource scattered

   3. Frontend UI

      1. Barriers to test decreased

      2. Anyone has access

      3. More frequent testing

   4. Benefits

      1. Cloud democratizes test envrionments

      2. Massive ability to scale

      3. Computing power on demand

7. Continous Deployment

   1. Let users vote with their feet

   2. Lower cycle times

   3. May not be for everyone

   4. Is this good for the company?

      1. need buy in

      2. need Discipline

      3. need Automated checking

      4. need Infrastructure

8. Geo-Location

   1. Location for more than just marketing

   2. Geo-Fencing

   3. When devices and software are distributed, so should the testing

9. Not only SQL

   1. CouchDB

   2. MongoDB

   3. Lots of write technology companies are using them

   4. typically faster and more scalable

   5. but lacks tools, general wide understanding and standards

   6. going to grow to larger organisations

   7. Context - to test front and back end

      1. A challenge

10. Social Media

    1. Gartner by 2016 predict tight integration of social to business apps

    2. Collaboration

    3. Security Hurdle

       1. IP

       2. Information and Data

       3. Sensitive Data

    4. Third Party App integration

11. Consumerisation

    1. influx of tech to business and personal

    2. rapid growth

12. Conclusion

    1. Rapid change

    2. Domain knowledge needs to grow

    3. Testing social and business means a wider awareness

    4. Software testing will evolve and innovate