In a world of increasing vendor solutions, how can organizations balance the need for specialized observability tools with the benefits of unified platforms and open standards like OpenTelemetry to achieve comprehensive and flexible observability?
What role does user experience play in holistic quality?
What advice would you give to QA leaders who want to start shifting their teams toward a holistic quality mindset?
What are the key pillars of observability (logs, metrics, traces, user signals) and how do they link back to quality engineering?
What are the key pillars of observability that help QA and DevOps teams improve reliability?
How do you balance cost vs. value when deciding what to observe?
How do you define “holistic quality” in the context of your software ecosystem, and how does it influence strategic decisions across multiple teams and products?
In what ways can observability be integrated early in the SDLC/ADLC to shift-left quality?
How do you ensure consistent observability across distributed, microservices-based, or hybrid cloud systems?
What are common challenges faced by human testers in agentic testing?
How can a skilled tester maintain independence in decision-making while using AI tools?
How do you measure the effectiveness of a skilled human tester in an agentic testing environment?
If observability tools could talk, what would they complain about the most?
How can leaders measure and communicate holistic quality to non-technical stakeholders?
What’s the role of risk-based testing in ensuring holistic quality across complex systems?
Do you see holistic quality becoming a standard expectation for software systems in the next decade?
How do you ensure observability initiatives are aligned with business outcomes like uptime, customer satisfaction, and revenue impact?
What are the essential signals (logs, metrics, traces, events) that give a true picture of software quality in production?
Can you pls elaborate on steps you took for “Grouped API perf metrics by how they affected a full user flow”?