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Most talks about quality assume you’ve got a QA team, a test framework someone already built, and headcount to spare.
This one’s for when you don’t.
Sam Connelly, Principal Quality Consultant within the Equal Experts network in Australia, walks through how a small startup team builds and maintains confidence in what they ship — for a predominantly JavaScript web app — without any of that safety net.
What we’ll cover:
- Unit testing — what we actually test (and, just as importantly, what we don’t)
- BDD, pragmatically — the test framework we built, and how we’ve kept it extensible as our underlying model evolves
- Debugging from the outside in — using analytics frameworks to reconstruct what a user did right before something broke
- Where we’re headed — early experiments including a self-healing UI E2E agent, and using Claude Code as an exploratory testing partner rather than just a coding tool
This isn’t a best-practices talk. It’s what quality actually looks like when you’re small, resource-constrained, and building the plane while flying it. You’ll leave with practical ideas for your own toolkit — whatever size team you’re working with.
Agenda
- 5:30 pm – Gates open, networking drinks & food)
- 6:15 pm – G-EE-K Talk
- 7:00 pm – Q&A
- 7:15 pm – Networking drinks (and more food)
- 8:00 pm – Wrap up