X Topic Abstract

Testing is interaction plus verification. That’s it – you do something, and you make sure it works. You can perform those two parts manually or with automation. An automated test script still requires manual effort, though: someone needs to write code for those interactions and verifications. For web apps, verifications can be lengthy. Pages can have hundreds of elements, and teams constantly take risks when choosing which verifications to perform and which to ignore. Traditional assertions are also inadequate for testing visuals, like layout and colors. That’s lots of work for questionable protection.
There’s a better way: automated visual testing. Instead of writing several assertions explicitly, we can take visual snapshots of our pages and compare them over time to detect changes. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a snapshot is worth a thousand assertions. In this talk, I’ll show you how to do this type of visual testing with Applitools. We’ll automate a basic web UI test together using traditional techniques with Selenium WebDriver and Java, and then we’ll supercharge it with visual snapshots. We’ll see how Applitools Visual AI can pinpoint meaningful differences instead of insignificant noise. We’ll also see how Applitools Ultrafast Test Cloud can render those snapshots on any browser configuration we want to test without needing to rerun our tests in full. By the end of this talk, you’ll see how automated visual testing will revolutionize functional test automation!

Speaker Profile

Andrew Knight, also known as “Pandy,” is the Automation Panda and a freshly-minted Developer Advocate at Applitools. He’s a testing and automation expert who loves to help people build better quality software. In the past, he’s built large-scale test automation projects that run continuously and reliably. Currently, Pandy is writing a book on software testing, and he’s also leading development for Boa Constrictor, the .NET Screenplay Pattern. After this talk, check out his tech blog at AutomationPanda.com, and follow him on Twitter at @AutomationPanda.

X Topic Abstract

W. Edwards Deming is known as one of the most important management scientists of the twentieth century.
Through advocating quality as a business philosophy, he helped industry in Japan recover after World War Two. His work underpins many aspects of lean and agile, and our understanding of quality.
The way we work today is built on the fundations Deming laid down. In this talk I will introduce you to the Deming Cycle and Deming’s 14 Points for Management. The Deming Cycle shows us how iterations should work. Deming's 14 Points gives us a theory of management for the improvement of quality, productivity and competitive position, which is something we as testers want.

Speaker Profile

Mike has been working in testing for 20 years and is currently the tester for Geckoboard. He has been a member of a test team, a Solo Tester, and a Test Lead. He has also worked as a part of the waterfall, lean and agile teams. Mike has a B.Sc.(HONS) from Middlesex University and is an Associate of the University of Hertfordshire. He has set up and led a Testing Community of Practice and been part of a successful agile transition. He is Programme Secretary of the British Computer Society’s Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing.
He also contributed to the e-book Testing Stories and has had articles published by the Ministry of Testing and The QA Lead.
In his spare time he coaches his daughters cricket team

X Topic Abstract

Effective testing and automation is best done when we start to break our software into smaller components at the bottom end of the software pyramid and focus on smaller testable components. In this presentation, I will showcase ideas and a proven framework on how you can take any team or product and work to achieve a testing framework and approach that allows for automation across every required frontend and backend layer, unit, and end-to-end test in a way that can be completed within a sprint with as minimal tech debt and left backlog as possible. Often teams focus too much on different tools and automation frameworks to help them achieve this rather than looking holistically at “how” they are building their software and whether it is appropriately testable, addressing a team culture that enables quality ownership throughout, and empowering your testers to operate at all levels across the stack so that they can test earlier and more effectively. I will also spend a little bit of time on how to create better unit tests that can help to increase coverage closer to the code and reduce the automation strain elsewhere in the testing triangle.

Speaker Profile

A man of many talents, but no sense of how to use them. Craig could be out changing the world but would prefer to make software instead. He possesses a passion for software design, but more importantly software quality and designing systems that can achieve this in a technically diverse and constantly evolving tech world. When not playing with software I can often be found writing, designing board games, or running long distances for no apparent reason. A man of many talents, but has no sense of how to use them. Craig could be out changing the world but would prefer to make software instead. He possesses a passion for software design, but more importantly software quality and designing systems that can achieve this in a technically diverse and constantly evolving tech world. When not playing with software I can often be found writing, designing board games, or running long distances for no apparent reason.