The long long time ago, the speaker ventured on an epic journey to find the answer to one very important question: 

• “What is quality?”

Over a dozen winters later, after having crossed countries and continents, having fought many battles and acquired a lot of precious artefacts (like the CPO hat), he finally has the answer, and it’s not a simple one.

In his talk, Ilya will discuss how people of different roles look at the quality, what they really care about, and how that changes when you cross from the startup kingdom to the enterprise realm. Which turns are safe to take any time, and which potholes to avoid. Who to make friends with, and who will remain your eternal foe. Pretty much everything you need to know to always win the battle of good. 

If you still think that requirements and applications are the only components you need to test - we're coming after you!

Thousands of testers face deployment and environment issues on daily basis, and those issues are nothing other than bugs of infrastructure. Such bugs often camouflage themselves as application bugs, which makes diagnosis and implementation of fixes non-straightforward, and often delays testing activities and even whole releases.

In my talk I'll give an overview of how familiar testing techniques (static, unit, integration, acceptance, etc.) and quality assuarance methods (reviews, bug tracking, continuous integration, release management) can be applied to infrastructure artifacts. Furthermore, I'll tell (and show, with examples and source code snipplets), how we at Align Technology use various tools from Chef ecosystem (and beyond) to improve infrastructure quality, along with the mood of the testers of the whole world.