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Test Automation Conference Europe

KEYNOTE 1

Faster, Safer, More Sustainable! The Green Revolution in Software Testing

Jutta Eckstein

13:30 - 14:30, Monday 10th November CET

The world is on fire! None of our efforts in software development will matter at all if we don’t change the course of the climate crisis. The software lifecycle also causes direct and indirect CO2 emissions: It leaves a footprint and exacerbates environmental problems.

However, the environmental aspect is not the only one we need to focus on. If we take our responsibility seriously, we must consider software development holistically, in the sense of the so-called triple bottom line, from all three sustainability perspectives: social, economic, and ecological.

Sustainability is, on the one hand, a necessity in the current crisis and, on the other hand, increasingly a key factor that determines the success of companies both in their search for talent and in their search for customers and markets. It is therefore time to understand how software testing can support this holistic perspective and, at the same time, how greater sustainability can lead to higher software quality.

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What you will Learn

  1. Sustainability is a quality attribute.
  2. Greater sustainability also means e.g., better performance, accessibility, smaller memory footprint & more data economy.
  3. In order to verify sustainability, it needs to be considered upfront.

Session Details

  • All
  • 1hr
  • 15mins Q&A

Session Speaker

Jutta Eckstein

Independent, Germany

Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. Jutta has recently co-created an assessment for (agile) teams to gauge the environmental, social, and economic impact of their products and services. Besides that, she has published her experience in various books, having pair-written the most recent one with John Buck on Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova). Jutta is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served the board from 2003-2007) and has recently founded the “Agile Sustainability Initiative” which aims at increasing the awareness of the Agile community’s possibilities to make a difference. She’s a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has presented her work. She holds an M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. (MSc.) in Product-Engineering, and is trained as a pollution control commissioner on ecological environmentalism.