Elevate Software Quality: Integrating Observability into Your Testing Process
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What You’ll Learn in This Webinar
Observability, offering deep insights into software performance and behavior, provides unique advantages in identifying and diagnosing system issues that traditional monitoring tools might miss. But how do we best integrate observability into our testing processes and teams?
Our DevOps and software experts roundtable discusses software testing and observability and how these tools can significantly impact QA’s quality assurance and testing approach. Our panelists will explore how leveraging observability can lead to more robust software products by enabling real-time troubleshooting and more precise error detection during the testing phase.
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What you will learn:
- The benefits of incorporating observability tools into testing strategies, such as enhanced visibility into system performance and the ability to track down elusive bugs that do not surface in controlled test environments,
- Specific, complex problems that observability tools are particularly well-suited to solve, including issues related to distributed systems, microservices, and asynchronous operations,
- Considerations when integrating observability into existing testing frameworks and workflows include data volume management, tool selection, and the required skill sets.
Adriana Villela
Sr. Developer Advocate - ServiceNow
Adriana is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Lightstep, based out of Toronto, Canada, with over 20 years of experience in tech. She focuses on helping companies achieve reliability greatness by through Observability and Incident Response practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Sr. Manager at Tucows/Wavelo. During this time, she defined technical direction in the organization, running both a Platform Engineering team, and an Observability Practices team. Adriana has also worked at various large-scale enterprises, including Bank of Montreal (BMO), Ceridian, and Accenture. At BMO, she was responsible for defining and driving the bank's enterprise-wide DevOps practice, which impacted business and technology teams across multiple geographic locations across the globe. Adriana has a widely-read technical blog on Medium, which is known for its casual and approachable tone to complex technical topics, and its high level of technical detail. She is also a HashiCorp Ambassador. Find her on Twitter at @adrianamvillela to talk all things tech.
Bryan Cole
Director of Customer Engineering - Tricentis
Bryan Cole is the Director of Customer Engineering at Tricentis. He has been an advocate for performance testing and engineering for the last two decades, working as a consultant, product manager, subject matter expert, solution architect, and enterprise architect. He believes performance is an attribute, not a feature, and is a strong proponent of a dedicated performance engineering discipline that involves participants from all aspects of the application development lifecycle. Bryan has led strategic conversations with hundreds of customers over the years and loves using stories and analogies to represent complex technical environments to people so that they can be easily understood.
Austin Parker
Director of Open Source - Honeycomb
Austin Parker is the Director of Open Source at Honeycomb, a long-time contributor and Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and author of several books including Distributed Tracing in Practice and Learning OpenTelemetry.
Alan Shimel
Founder & CEO - Techstrong Group
Alan is founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute. As such, he is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. He is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chats podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. He is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.
MITCH ASHLEY
Chief Technology Advisor, The Futurum Group
CTO, Techstrong Group
CTO, Techstrong Group
Mitch Ashley is a technology executive and entrepreneur who is an advisor, analyst, product creator and tech leader, bringing 30+ years in cybersecurity, cloud, AI, product development, software engineering and networking. Mitch is Chief Technology Advisor with The Futurum Group and CTO of Techstrong Group’s tech media platforms covering digital leadership, DevOps, cybersecurity, AI, cloud native, cloud infrastructure, platforms and ITSM. A highly sought-after advisor, analyst, CTO, CIO and head of engineering, Mitch’s analyst research is available on TechstrongResearch.com and FuturumGroup.com.
