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What was it all about?

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Global Testing

Retreat(GTR) is a

global QA and Testing

Professional

Conference

("UnConference")

featuring not only real

world experience and

thought leadership in

the QA and Testing

industry but a chance

to participate in

various testing, agile

and sports

competitions. Agile

Testing Alliance

organized this first of

the kind global event

in Pune, India. GTR

wanted all the testers

to enjoy this 3 day

event not only for

learning but to un-

wind and have fun

while participating in

various events a truly

one of a kind TESTING

RETREAT.

ATA GTR was brought

to you by Agile Testing

Alliance (ATA) which

has already been part

of two very successful

events in the past,

Agile Testing Alliance

Global Gatherings in

2014 and 2015.

ATAGG2014, ATAGG2

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ATA and GTR aim to

augment the QA and

testing echelon of the

industry.

The conference was

organized by testing

stalwarts from across the

globe who volunteered to

make the event a

tremendous success

Event Highlights The event featured a host of speakers, workshops and contests… Here’s a snapshot

40+ Speakers

4 Tracks – Agile and DevOps, Digital Transformation, Tools, XATAhon

1100+ Hours of Learning

130+ Participating Companies

1000+ QuizATAhon Entries

30+ Winners

May 2016 AT A GTR Special Edi t ion

Global Testing Retreat 2016

Inside this issue:

What was it all about? 1

Event Highlights 1

Top Story - CafeATAhon 2

Speakers Galore 2

Contests and XATAhon 4

Social Media Buzz 4

Winners 7

Word from Delegates 8

The force behind 9

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Hosted by Renu Rajani VP testing,

Capgemini, the event featured some of

the best women testers in the country

who shared the same platform to share

their experiences. This was a discussion

highlighting the success stories of the

women in testing, the challenges they

face and the way to move forward. The

surprise of the session was Schalk Cronje.

Catch the recap of the entire session

here

Top Story - CafeATAhon

Soumya Mukherjee and many

more…

More than 40 speakers spoke on

a wide range of topics that

covered the length and

breadth of the hot and

happening topics from around

the globe in the areas of

Testing, Agile, Digital

Transformation and many more.

The diversity of the the speaker’s

experience was the icing on the

cake as the event provided a

platform to some of the very

young and talented folks from

the industry to share their

knowledge and experience

Speakers Galore GTR2016 had some of the top

industry wizards as speakers

The lineup had International

speakers of the likes of Olaf

Lewitz, Marco Vermeulen,

Schalk Cronje, Dr. Shankar

Ramamurthy, Ajay

Balamurugadas, Santhosh

Tuppad, Rajni Padnabhan,

Ramit Kaul, Milind Prabhu,

Aditya Garg, Ashish Mishra,

“Simple & easy, reliable, durable are

the 3 key factors - to select a

framework” – Ketan Soni

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Some of the top sessions at the event were

Keynote on Software Quality by Olaf Lewitz

BDD: the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How by Marco Vermeulen

Cool JVM Tools to Help you Test. By Schalk Cronje

The New Gives and Takes in a Tester’s Role by Rajini Padmanaban

50+ ways to improve tester-programmer relationship by Ajay Balamurugadas

Coders Testers - We Need New Testing Tools (Brainstorming) By Santhosh Tuppad

DevOps- Decoding Da Vinci Code by Dr. Shankar Ramamurthy

Big Data - Hadoop and MapReduce - new age tools for aid to testing and QA by Aditya Garg

Data driven testing using Appium, Cucumber and Fitnesse by Ashish Mishra

And many more…

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More Event Pictures…

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GTR featured multiple contests

and competition. It all began

with a series of weekly quiz

competition which ran for 10

weeks and set the tone for the

leaderboard

By the time of the conference,

there were 137 teams that had

participated with more than a

1000 entries for the QuizATAhon

alone. The position in the

leaderboard was also

determined by the papers that

were submitted for the

conference. There were more

than 80 papers that were

submitted.

The highlight of the contests was

that entries were submitted

across experience levels. This

was done to encourage young

budding testers to come out

and share their experiences and

propagate learning.

The event featured, ATA’s very

own BugATAhon which has seen

many testers test out

applications in limited time to

discover bugs and make

applications better. There was

also a workshop on how testers

could be engaged from the

very first day. There was a

special workshop on Testing the

Mysterious sphere highlighting

the engagement of testers, and

making testing more relevant

than just executing test cases.

Contests and XATAHON

Social Media Buzz…

GTR was marketed on Social Media with Testing Curator and Testing Circus helping propagate the

event

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During the conference, Twitter was constantly buzzing with news about the event with #ATAGT2016

More Social Media Buzz…

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#ATAGTR2016 was quite a hit on Twitter with over a Million Timeline Deliveries. Check out all tweets here…

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Winners…

Awards were given away for the Best paper, the overall winner of QuizATAhon and the Best team on

Leaderboard…

For Winners list visit the here… and QuizATAhon Winners

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A word from the delegates….

The audience found the conference to be a very enriching experience. Here’s what some of them

had to say…

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The force behind…

ATA GTR was a highly successful conference thanks to sponsors…