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Automation and Business Solutions Info

Wreck It Before You Ship It

Business & Strategy Info
Level 100 Info

SPEAKERS

Melissa Hale

MVP
Kerv

ABOUT THE SESSION

Working with the Power Platform means accepting one truth, your users will break your apps and flows in ways you never expected. Users are incredibly creative in that respect! So we are going to take a leaf out of the book of one of the most underappreciated characters in his world, Wreck-It Ralph. After all, if Ralph didn’t break things, there wouldn’t be much of a game. and without proper QA, there won’t be much of an app either.

Together we’ll channel our ‘inner Ralph’ and learn how to put our apps through their paces before they reach the real final boss – the customers! Because, users will stress-test anything you give them in ways we couldn’t possibly imagine.

Join this fun and slightly chaotic tour through testing in the Power Platform. We’ll explore the realms of functional, integration, regression, and non-functional testing, and how these approaches help keep your apps stable from launch through ongoing development.

Along the way we’ll revisit a few testing horror stories (yes, including test scripts in Excel), discuss how to advocate for better testing during sprint planning, and highlight some platform “power-ups” that help analyse solutions, trace issues, and simulate user interactions.

Packed with practical tips and relatable developer pain, this session will leave you with a new appreciation for breaking things on purpose, because sometimes the best thing you can do for your users is be a little more like Ralph.

Assumed Knowledge:

No assumed knowledge required for this session.

Practical Takeaways:

1. Clear guidance on where testing fits within Power Platform ALM Attendees gain a practical view of how to integrate testing into everyday delivery, not just at release time. 2. Fast, repeatable testing techniques powered by AI They’ll learn specific ways AI can speed up test creation, data generation, and issue analysis. 3. A solid grasp of core testing concepts and when to use them Participants leave confident in choosing the right testing approach for different project scenarios.

Out of Session Scope:

This session will not cover deployment pipelines, environment or ALM governance, performance tuning or solution architecture, nor provide tool?specific tutorials or detailed walkthroughs of third?party testing frameworks (like playwright).

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Melissa Hale

Melissa Hale

MVP

Kerv