Testing Talks Melbourne, Australia 2023

October 13th, 2023 by inflectra

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Team Inflectra was excited to attend the 2023 Testing Talks Conference in Melbourne, Australia this week. Created by the testing visionary and community builder Cameron Bradley, Testing Talks brought together some of the most important innovative vendors and companies in the software testing space, with speakers and practitioners from around the Victorian software testing community. We had attended Testing Talks Sydney earlier in the year and Testing Talks Melbourne in 2022.

Testing Talks Melbourne Sponsor by Inflectra

Exhibiting Inflectra's Solutions

We were happy to meet the local testing community, with representatives from major companies in the region, including NAB, ANZ, Telstra and Coles. We were excited to be able to demonstrate our SpiraPlan platform, including its key features such as requirements and test management, agile planning, program management and risk analysis and traceability. In addition, visitors could learn about Rapise our tool for codeless test automation, We also discussed the merits of AI, risk-based testing and test automation.

We were joined at our booth by our friend Golnoush Abaei from RMIT. Her students at RMIT are currently using SpiraPlan as part of the Inflectra Global Technology Initiative to educate students on the best practices for software testing, requirements analysis and risk management.

During the day, we got the change to meet testers, agile practitioners and other technology professionals and learn about their challenges and discuss how they could use Inflectra's products and services to optimize their software development and testing lifecycles. Of course we got to have some fun as well, with our legendary swag (USB hubs, the James Bond Pen) and stickers (lovingly crafted by our CTO Simon).

We even brought our Inflectra branded "corn-hole" bean bag toss game to keep the post-lunch doldrums to a minimum. It was also nice to catch up with our partners TTC Australia who were also exhibiting at the event.

Speaking about Risk Based Testing in the Age of AI

Our CEO - Adam Sandman - also had the opportunity to give a talk on "Risk Based Testing in the Age of AI". The talk was presented on the main stage and covered the key elements of risk management, applying them to risk-based testing, and finally considering the challenges and benefits that AI may bring to the fields of risk management and testing.

He also had the chance to show some of the recent results from using ChatGPT's OpenAI model to generate test cases, risks and BDD scenarios from simple requirements and user stories.

The audience liked the talk, with many attendees coming up to our booth, looking to ask questions and gain insights and understandings.

Giving Away Prizes

Of course, no conference would be complete without games and prizes, and Adam was also happy to award our prize for the most answered questions, a laser Bluetooth projection keyboard.