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9:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: GitHub Actions: Make Them Work for You!

Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 10:20am PST

Eleftherios Chrysochoidis, Chubb, Lead API Software Engineer

GitHub Actions offer robust and free CI/CD capabilities to streamline your development process. In this presentation, we'll dive into the core components of GitHub Actions and explore how they can be set to work for you by demonstrating various simple and advanced use cases!

GitHub Actions is an ideal tool for any project hosted on GitHub. It provides CI/CD features out of the box and is accessible to everyone without the need for extra infrastructure or setup. The declarative way of creating Actions makes their usage really easy, and its remarkable free layer provides sufficient limits even for big projects.

Especially for Open Source projects, where usually there is more than a single contributor, the need for CI/CD is huge. What will happen if you own an open source project and someone creates a Pull Request with really nice features but adds Security risks in the project (e.g. due to deprecated dependencies) or if they break some of the existing functionality? Would you be able to check all of them on your own? Maybe yes, but it would take much more time compared to having them all checked automatically by utilizing GitHub Actions.

Join me to explore how to make GitHub Actions run faster by utilizing caching mechanisms, build Reports for Testing, Coverage and Security issues and integrate them with any open Pull Request in the community, to have an automated evaluation of the suggested PR and get notifications for them.

Speakers

Eleftherios Chrysochoidis

Lead API Software Engineer, Chubb

Experienced Lead Software Engineer with Passion for Community EngagementWith over six years of experience in software engineering, building and maintaining robust applications, Eleftherios (or simply Lefteris) gained a deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot technologies.His passion... Read More →

Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 10:20am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

OpsWorld

Tracks & Topics DevOps Certificate, Open Source Strategy
Session Type PRO Workshop Day (Tues)
Conferences Virtual, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Where Is the Love? Why Automated Regression Testing Isn’t Getting the Attention It Needs

Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

VIRTUAL OpsWorld

Jens Wessling, Veracode, Chief Technology Officer

As software development continues to evolve at a rapid pace and new innovations bring a world of possibilities, one item is often left behind: automated regression testing. The truth is without it, organizations can forget about software quality, security, winning customers' trust or being agile.

Regression testing is an integral, non-negotiable part of the production software development process right from the very moment the first line of production code is written. Its impact goes beyond code correctness, influencing development velocity, reducing long-term maintenance costs and ensuring a smoother integration process during acquisitions. However, companies often scramble to retrofit regression testing into their legacy code, but in reality, less than 10% of these after-the-fact efforts ever pan out. It might be tempting to overlook the absence of solid regression testing in smaller companies, but here's the catch: the long-term costs of maintaining code without automated testing don't just stay put – they grow. It's not just a “nice to have” it’s a strategic investment to safeguard their current operations and for companies to position themselves for future growth, innovation and success.

In this Thought Leadership Session, Jens Wessling, CTO of Veracode, outlines the importance of automated regression testing, highlighting why both developers and the C-Suite should make it a priority from the outset and how to make it a core aspect of your team's ethos.

Speakers

Jens Wessling

Chief Technology Officer, Veracode

Jens Wessling is the Chief Technology Officer at Veracode. He leads the architecture vision for Veracode’s core capabilities around its proprietary data model and AI-powered remediation engine. With more than 25 years’ experience in software engineering and architecture, Jens... Read More →

Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics DevOps, DevOps Certificate
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Exec World, Virtual, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual Virtual