Dig In: Get Familiar with the Code to Be a Better Tester

Maybe you’ve been testing the same application for a while and your rate of finding new bugs has slowed. Or you’re trying to find more ways to figure out what your devs are doing day to day. You have the tools at your disposal—you just need to dig in! Hilary Weaver-Robb will share tools and techniques you can use to take your testing to the next level. See everything the developers are changing, and learn how you can find the most vulnerable parts of the code. These strategies can help you focus your testing and track down those pesky bugs! Take away a better understanding of tools to conduct static analysis on the code, and use these results to find potential bugs. You'll discover ways to use commit logs to figure out what’s being changed and understand why it’s helpful to dig into the code of the application under test.

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