On Saturday, December 18, 2021, Alibaba Test Innovation Conference (Alibaba Quality Innovation Conference) was successfully held online on Youku. The conference was hosted by the Quality Group of Alibaba Technology Committee and hosted by Alibaba Entertainment Technology Quality Department. The Alibaba Quality Innovation Conference has been successfully held for three times since 2019, when Alibaba first created TICA, an open quality innovation forum with industry partners.
TICA2021 has a total of 6 venues, including 1 main venue, five sub-venues: Quality and efficiency, intelligence, high availability, IoT& end intelligence, multimedia and audio and video. Taichan, the leader of Alibaba business platform quality team, Ping Si, the head of Alibaba Entertainment Technology Quality Department, Sheng Jian, the test and development director of Ant Group, and Alibaba CBU Technology have been invited respectively Quality team leader Ao Ye, Ant Group Alipay IOT quality technology Department head Wei Luo, Alibaba Big Taobao technology quality team leader Qingling as the producers of this conference. A total of 34 topics were shared in this conference, and the guests were well-known quality experts from Peking University, China Information and Communication Institute, Amazon, Alibaba, Huawei, Baidu, iQiyi, Jingdong, Kuaishou and other domestic and foreign industry, university and research circles. More than 2000 software testing professionals from all over the country meet online to communicate and discuss the technology, future and development of the testing industry.
Better life, common yearning
During the recent Singles' Day shopping festival, Alibaba came up with the slogan "Better Life together". Creating a "beautiful" Double Eleven for consumers, merchants and the whole society, continuously improving users' shopping experience, ensuring the security and privacy of user data, ensuring the efficiency of the system and ensuring the safety of people and goods in the "last three kilometers" of terminal distribution, has become the direction of constant exploration and practice of the technical team. The annual Singles' Day is actually a training ground for quality technology, which serves as a window for insight into the latest requirements for quality.
Therefore, TICA2021 also put forward the slogan of "Quality measurement of beauty", hoping to escort the better life of the whole society through continuous construction of professional competence and continuous exploration of innovative methods together with all colleagues in the industry.
Knowledge is boundless, quality is beautiful
With the development of digital system today, for users and the society, whether it is powerful is not the main contradiction, but whether it is beautiful is the main contradiction. Technology not only needs to be high technology, but also must be good technology. Quality technology is an essential part of good science and technology. Quality technology must keep pace with, and even precede, digital innovations.
"ava Application Performance Evaluation and Optimization" allows participants to deeply experience the cutting-edge exploration and practice in the field of quality innovation from industry, university and research, and also shows a new vision for participants.
In the era of big data and AI, the object of verification includes not only "programs" but also data. In the intelligent section, lecturers from Kuaishou, iQiyi, Ant and Jingdong shared the exploration and practice of AI technology in the testing work of the company. We could see the test and test results no matter using AI to explore accurate testing, build test system for big data products, or automatically generate use cases by using AI technology AI combination, to the quality of the leap.
System high availability and stability have always been the foundation of various services. In the special session on high availability, lecturers from Huawei, Qiniuyun, Ant and Alibaba introduced how to ensure high availability and stability of business from different business perspectives. No matter it is e-commerce system link, cloud infrastructure, super APP like Alipay, blockchain and other emerging technologies, in the face of large-scale user concurrency scenarios and complex business models, all need reasonable system architecture and perfect availability solutions to deal with the stability problem.
Quality assurance is also an important link in the field of multimedia and audio and video. How to define quality standards based on different business scenarios of audio and video, how to conduct end-to-end multi-dimensional QOSQOE audio and video evaluation, and how to conduct audio and video image quality, pressure measurement, traceability analysis and other special testing capabilities from the perspective of user experience? Senior practitioners from Youku, Taobao, Kuaishou, Ali Cloud, sound network and other fields elaborated the challenges and solutions of quality assessment in the field of audio and video from different perspectives.
The Internet of Things, which has been mentioned frequently in recent years, has really begun to penetrate into people's lives, and smart devices have entered thousands of households. With the continuous advancement of big data, cloud computing, AI and other technology waves, the increasing perfection of sensors, data communication, end-cloud collaboration platforms, and the increasing acceptance of intelligent hardware devices by consumers,IOT development is gradually coming to a climax, which is due to the combination of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. IOT quality practitioners are also facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. In the IOT and terminal intelligence session, lecturers from Baidu, Xiaomi,Anker and Alibaba gave their own answers respectively.
The whole conference is also interspersed with the quality assurance system, research and development efficiency improvement thinking, from the Kuaishou "Kuaishou client quality assurance system evolution Road", from the sound network "from 0 to 1 build software delivery quality assurance loop", from Ant "use case intelligent drive DevOps quality delivery improvement", from Jingdong "quality team multidimensional improvement method" , and the Quality Improvement Insights and Case Sharing from Thoughtworks are worth thinking about for test practitioners.
Although this conference has ended, the pace of continuous innovation and practice of quality people has never stopped. TICA, see you next year!
