Effective Agentic AI Development with Specs, Skills and Old Good Design Patterns
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Featured talks
Who is an IT consultant and how to be an expert in everything
InterviewDOU 2021
Rise and Fall of story points. Capacity-based planning from the trenches.
Simplicity Day: Agile Magic 2020
Wasteful waste or why everything is usually so slow in development
Selenium Camp 2019 · JEEConf 2019 · Voxxed Days Minsk 2019
Saga about distributed business transactions in microservices world
XP Days Ukraine 2019
DevOps checklist or how to understand where is your team in DevOps landscape
XP Days Ukraine 2018 · DelEx 2019
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2021
2020
2019
Effectiveness tips from Kubernetes trenches by Captain Obvious
XP Days Ukraine 2019
Hexagonal architecture with Spring Boot and how to test it
Java with a Human Face meetup 2019
Ride the database in JUnit tests with Database Rider
Devoxx Ukraine 2019
2018
Agile antipatterns: review after 10 years of practice
Agile Rock Conference 2018
Bro, manage test data like a pro!
Selenium Camp 2018 · QA Fest 2018
Hexagonal Architecture with Spring Boot
JEEConf 2018
Practical challenges of building a medical record system for an entire country
Domain Meetups: E-Healthcare #1 2018
Developer + tester = quality++
QA Fest 2017 · Selenium Camp 2018
2017
5 top pain points of test automation
Selenium Camp 2017
Code Review tool for personal effectiveness and waste analysis
XP Days Ukraine 2017
Continuous improvements of developer efficiency with modern IDE
JEEConf 2017
Design patterns in test automation
Selenium Camp 2017
Everything you want to know about Page Object design pattern
WorkshopSelenium Camp 2017
Funny stories and anti-patterns from DevOps landscape
XP Days Ukraine 2017
Gamification: Experience Report
PM Day Lviv 2016 · IT Weekend Dnipro 2017 · OdessaJS 2017 · PM fwdays 2017
Java 8: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
JavaDay Kharkiv 2016 · JavaDay Kyiv 2016 · IT Weekend Dnipro 2017 · JEEConf 2017 · with Oleg Tsal-Tsalko
Start writing good functional tests in Java with WebDriver
WorkshopSelenium Camp 2017
Test Driven Spring Boot applications
WorkshopJEEConf 2017
2016
Hibernate performance tuning
JEEConf 2016 · JavaDay Kharkiv 2016 · with Igor Dmitriev
Code review at large scale
XP Days Ukraine 2016
Do we need JMS in 21st century?
JavaDay Lviv 2015 · JEEConf 2015 · GeekOUT 2016
Frameworks-shrameworks or how to ruin your test automation
Selenium Camp 2016
Hibernate, how the magic is really done?
JEEConf 2016 · with Igor Dmitriev
How QA engineers could affect product quality? Or couldn’t?
QA Fest 2016 · PM Day Lviv 2016 · XP Days Ukraine 2016 · DevTernity 2016
How TDD helps to produce better design, or not?
XP Days Ukraine 2016
Ideal test automation process or the full story about test pyramid
Selenium Camp 2016
Java 8 Puzzlers: The strange, the bizarre and the wonderful
JEEConf 2016 · GeekOUT 2016 · with Evgeny Borisov, Viktor Gamov
The portrait of professional developer 2.0
Software Engineering Conference 2016
The modern view on implementation of classic design patterns in Java
JDay Lviv 2015 · JavaDay Kyiv 2015 · JavaDay Kharkiv 2016
2015
How Java developers should test their applications
WorkshopJavaDay Kyiv 2015
How to make your functional tests really quick
XP Days Ukraine 2015 · Selenium Camp 2015 · QA Fest 2015
Why testing takes so long
XP Days Ukraine 2014 · ITEM 2015 · Selenium Camp 2015
Java Concurrency Applied
JavaDay Kyiv 2014 · Morning@Lohika 2015 · JEEConf 2015
2014
An everyday classification of testers from a developer's point of view
QA Fest 2014
Continuous Delivery
UA DevClub meetup #22 2012 · IT Spring 2014
Development without Testers: Myth or Real Option?
QADnepr Mini Conference 2011 · XP Days Ukraine 2011 · IT Spring 2014
Spring configuration: how to do it right (experience report)
JEEConf 2014
Why does Spring need so many configurations? A conspiracy?! Et tu, Spring Boot?
JavaDay Kyiv 2014 · with Baruch Sadogursky
Don't reinvent the wheel! Proper functional tests with WebDriver and Thucydides
Selenium Camp 2013 · QA Fest 2014
OOP paradigms, basics of good design and architecture
UA DevClub meetup #31 2013 · JEEConf 2014
2013
TDD for database related code, how is it possible?
XP Days Ukraine 2013 · JavaDay Kyiv 2013
Effective messaging for Java applications
JEEConf 2013
Spring configuration metadata: what it should be and how (practical experience)
JUG KPI meetup 2013
Do you know what your tests are testing?
Selenium Camp 2013
Why do I hate Hibernate?
JEEConf 2012 · Java Tech Talks #5 2012 · JDay Lviv 2013
Messaging in distributed systems
UA DevClub meetup #25 2012 · JDay Lviv 2013
Razbor Poletov podcast, “Episode 39: Healthy again!”
PodcastRazbor Poletov podcast 2013
Portrait of a professional developer
IT-People PechaKucha 2013 · Levi9 Meetup 2013
2012
Hybrid solutions for effective data storage
JEEConf 2012
Agile Evolution or ‘On the way to ideal process’
AgileEE 2012 · XP Days Ukraine 2012
Agile Testing by Example
XP Days Ukraine 2012 · with Andriy Dzynia
Automated UI Testing
Ukrainian Testing Days 2012
Easy AJAX with Java and DWR
JSGroupUA 2012
Pomodoro: 2 years after…
IT Brunch 2012
TDD with functional tests on WebDriver
Selenium Camp 2012
Thucydides: next-generation acceptance tests based on WebDriver
Selenium Camp 2012
XP
XP PechaKucha 2012
XP [Extended]
IT Brunch 2012
Insidious tracer bullet development
IT Brunch 2012
Developing an application in the Amazon cloud
UA DevClub meetup #14 2012
Functional testing of web applications with Selenium/WebDriver for developers
UA DevClub meetup #21 2012
2011
Agile Estimation Techniques
Agile Base Camp Kyiv 2011
Agile. The way from chaos to flow.
Agile PechaKucha 2011
DSL, Page Object and Selenium — a way to reliable functional tests
WorkshopSelenium Camp 2011
Java Unit Testing with Unitils
JEEConf 2011 · UA DevClub meetup #1 2011
Refactoring
UA DevClub meetup #4 2011
Scalable Java Application Development on AWS
JEEConf 2011 · IT-Jam 2011
Selenium + Wiki = Executable Specification
Selenium Camp 2011
Small Hyper-Productive Teams
IT-Jam PechaKucha 2011
Small Hyper-Productive Teams [Extended]
IT Brunch 2011
2010
2009
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