Automate across Platform, OS, Technologies with TaaSAnand Bagmar
Slides and link to audio from my talk + demo on how to "Automation across Platform, OS, Technologies with TaaS" at Agile India 2014, Bangalore on 1st March 2014
Leandro Melendez - Switching Performance Left & RightNeotys_Partner
Since its beginning, the Performance Advisory Council aims to promote engagement between various experts from around the world, to create relevant, value-added content sharing between members. For Neotys, to strengthen our position as a thought leader in load & performance testing. During this event, 12 participants convened in Chamonix (France) exploring several topics on the minds of today’s performance tester such as DevOps, Shift Left/Right, Test Automation, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
Since its beginning, the Performance Advisory Council aims to promote engagement between various experts from around the world, to create relevant, value-added content sharing between members. For Neotys, to strengthen our position as a thought leader in load & performance testing. During this event, 12 participants convened in Chamonix (France) exploring several topics on the minds of today’s performance tester such as DevOps, Shift Left/Right, Test Automation, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
Example of TAF with batch execution of test cases COMAQA.BY
An example of architectural solution based on consolidate approach is considered. Proposed solution allows to reduce tests time running especially while working on testing of application API with some time-consuming process.
Speaker: Carla de Groot
Genre & level: Backend, Medior
Are you looking for the best framework fit for API testing? Look no further. I already did this for you. As your sensei, I’ll give you a solid base for your first kata in Karate so you can further master the art of API testing.
Automate across Platform, OS, Technologies with TaaSAnand Bagmar
Slides and link to audio from my talk + demo on how to "Automation across Platform, OS, Technologies with TaaS" at Agile India 2014, Bangalore on 1st March 2014
Leandro Melendez - Switching Performance Left & RightNeotys_Partner
Since its beginning, the Performance Advisory Council aims to promote engagement between various experts from around the world, to create relevant, value-added content sharing between members. For Neotys, to strengthen our position as a thought leader in load & performance testing. During this event, 12 participants convened in Chamonix (France) exploring several topics on the minds of today’s performance tester such as DevOps, Shift Left/Right, Test Automation, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
Since its beginning, the Performance Advisory Council aims to promote engagement between various experts from around the world, to create relevant, value-added content sharing between members. For Neotys, to strengthen our position as a thought leader in load & performance testing. During this event, 12 participants convened in Chamonix (France) exploring several topics on the minds of today’s performance tester such as DevOps, Shift Left/Right, Test Automation, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
Example of TAF with batch execution of test cases COMAQA.BY
An example of architectural solution based on consolidate approach is considered. Proposed solution allows to reduce tests time running especially while working on testing of application API with some time-consuming process.
Speaker: Carla de Groot
Genre & level: Backend, Medior
Are you looking for the best framework fit for API testing? Look no further. I already did this for you. As your sensei, I’ll give you a solid base for your first kata in Karate so you can further master the art of API testing.
Putting Quality First through Continuous TestingTechWell
Capital One has a highly integrated environment, which creates many dependencies for its agile teams. Because these dependencies are often not completed until late in their sprints, Capital One faced prolonged integration and regression testing phases, and did not realize the expected improvements in quality or time to market. As technology leaders pushed for continuous delivery, testing needed to “shift left” and execute test in real time concurrently with development. Adam Auerbach shares Capital One’s experience implementing continuous testing. He explains the core principles of continuous testing, service virtualization, and the continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline—and why testers need to understand and leverage these important concepts. Adam believes that testers need to learn basic development skills, including Ruby and Java, so they can take advantage of advanced automation practices. Because continuous testing is not easy and many companies have large populations of manual testers, Adam will provide a learning map to help you plan your personal and team’s transition.
Load testing with Visual Studio and Azure - Andrew SiemerAndrew Siemer
In this presentation we will look at what web performance testing is and the various types of testing that can be performed. We will then dig into Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate to see that the Visual Studio platform is now a real contender in performance testing automation. And we will see how the Visual Studio integration with Visual Studio Online and Azure can take your web performance tests and spin up impressive load tests in a truly useful way.
Setting Up CircleCI Workflows for Your Salesforce AppsDaniel Stange
Circle CI webinar held by Daniel Stange June 27th, 2018.
Salesforce has been investing a lot into their developer experience, including making it easier to continuously update and improve Salesforce apps via the process of continuous integration and delivery. If you've been looking to incorporate more DevOps practices into your Salesforce app development, or are simply looking for a tutorial on CI/CD for Salesforce apps, this webinar is for you.
Manage a Complex Test Effort with Lean and KanbanTechWell
“How absurd! She swallowed a bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.” The silly nursery rhyme teaches a serious lesson. Because software products are complex, we seek to manage them by spinning a complex web of processes and tools. Thankfully, not all complex problems demand complex solutions. Join Mike Duskis as he demonstrates how his test team employed kanban practices to manage the test work of a multi-national, multi-project department with a system of index cards on the wall. With the kanban system in place and lean practices driving decisions, the team simplified the prioritization process, improved test visibility, which led to better testing choices. Lean-kanban produced strong results at Mike's shop and could do the same for yours. Join Mike to learn how you can clarify and communicate your test effort—without swallowing any spiders.
More Information
We hear this quote frequently, in small and large companies around the world. My team and I have been a part of this evolution. I was asked to join an ambitious project at work. My task, was to build a team to be the first DevTest group in my organization.
The journey I will share with you is how to integrate the agile mindset into your non-agile team, focusing on methodologies, techniques, and technologies.
Performance Monitoring with AOP and Amazon CloudWatchYan Cui
This talk outlines how to easily set up pseudo-RT performance monitoring for your application using an AOP framework such as PostSharp in conjunction with the Amazon CloudWatch service.
This presentation addresses web app integration testing (a.k.a. browser testing) in Python. It focuses on currently-available tools, including one that I wrote, and looks at some specific integration testing concerns for the Django web framework.
Test and Behaviour Driven Development (TDD/BDD)Lars Thorup
In this introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD) or Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) we give a high level description of what it is and why it is useful for developers. Then we go into some details on stubs and mocks, test data, UI testing, SQL testing, JavaScript testing, web services testing and how to start doing TDD/BDD on an existing code base.
A presentation that guides you through the stages of testing your Java enterprise application. Finally it shows you that Arquillian is the best tool for that
While we’re drawing ever closer to Java 9, and even hearing about features in Java 10, it’s also true that many of us are still working with an older version. Even if your project has technically adopted Java 8, and even if you’re using it when coding new features, it’s likely the majority of your code base is still not making the most of what’s available in Java 8 - features like Lambda Expressions, the Streams API, and new Date/Time.
In this presentation, Trisha:
- Highlights some of the benefits of using Java 8 - after all, you’ll probably have to persuade The Management that tampering with existing code is worthwhile
- Demonstrates how to identify areas of code that can be updated to use Java 8 features
- Shows how to automatically refactor your code to make use of features like lambdas and streams.
- Covers some of the pros and cons of using the new features - including suggestions of when refactoring may NOT be the best idea.
Sencha Roadshow 2017: Best Practices for Implementing Continuous Web App TestingSencha
Learn how to create end-to-end functional tests quickly across multiple browsers simultaneously and scale the automated test suite to over thousands of test cases and cross-browser combinations for a complete regression cycle. We will demonstrate how we are able to locate a component, generate test code, and execute tests from TeamCity.
Managing the deployment of code to multiple AWS Lambda functions and updating your API Gateway methods can be manual and time consuming.
In this session, we will show you how to build a deployment pipeline to AWS Lambda using AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service based on Amazon’s internal release automation tooling. We will discuss how to use versioning, which enables you to better manage the different variations of your Lambda functions and API Gateway methods in your development workflow (e.g., development, staging, and production). We will walk through how to automate the entire release process of your application from development, to staging, and finally to production; performing automated integration tests at each stage.
Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to developing software for complex needs by deeply connecting the implementation to an evolving model of the core business concepts.
Amazon pioneered cloud services in 2006 thereby providing organizations the capability to flexibly scale their infrastructure with high reliability. Since then other cloud service providers like Microsoft, Google and others have joined the bandwagon with the central idea of enabling its customers to completely outsource the overhead of managing their infrastructure. This has paved the ground for various offerings for infrastructure management commonly known as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). These offerings have enabled companies to experiment with new ideas and continue iterations with minimal upfront investment.
The human resource management landscape is ripe for a similar disruption. Companies are realizing that flexible on-demand human resource provisioning can enable it to solve business challenges better, faster and cheaper. Resource services being available on demand is often referred to as Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS). TaaS enables organizations get to right on-demand workforce which can thrive in the continuously evolving digital landscape. This allows companies to be more responsive and focused on user needs.
Putting Quality First through Continuous TestingTechWell
Capital One has a highly integrated environment, which creates many dependencies for its agile teams. Because these dependencies are often not completed until late in their sprints, Capital One faced prolonged integration and regression testing phases, and did not realize the expected improvements in quality or time to market. As technology leaders pushed for continuous delivery, testing needed to “shift left” and execute test in real time concurrently with development. Adam Auerbach shares Capital One’s experience implementing continuous testing. He explains the core principles of continuous testing, service virtualization, and the continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline—and why testers need to understand and leverage these important concepts. Adam believes that testers need to learn basic development skills, including Ruby and Java, so they can take advantage of advanced automation practices. Because continuous testing is not easy and many companies have large populations of manual testers, Adam will provide a learning map to help you plan your personal and team’s transition.
Load testing with Visual Studio and Azure - Andrew SiemerAndrew Siemer
In this presentation we will look at what web performance testing is and the various types of testing that can be performed. We will then dig into Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate to see that the Visual Studio platform is now a real contender in performance testing automation. And we will see how the Visual Studio integration with Visual Studio Online and Azure can take your web performance tests and spin up impressive load tests in a truly useful way.
Setting Up CircleCI Workflows for Your Salesforce AppsDaniel Stange
Circle CI webinar held by Daniel Stange June 27th, 2018.
Salesforce has been investing a lot into their developer experience, including making it easier to continuously update and improve Salesforce apps via the process of continuous integration and delivery. If you've been looking to incorporate more DevOps practices into your Salesforce app development, or are simply looking for a tutorial on CI/CD for Salesforce apps, this webinar is for you.
Manage a Complex Test Effort with Lean and KanbanTechWell
“How absurd! She swallowed a bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.” The silly nursery rhyme teaches a serious lesson. Because software products are complex, we seek to manage them by spinning a complex web of processes and tools. Thankfully, not all complex problems demand complex solutions. Join Mike Duskis as he demonstrates how his test team employed kanban practices to manage the test work of a multi-national, multi-project department with a system of index cards on the wall. With the kanban system in place and lean practices driving decisions, the team simplified the prioritization process, improved test visibility, which led to better testing choices. Lean-kanban produced strong results at Mike's shop and could do the same for yours. Join Mike to learn how you can clarify and communicate your test effort—without swallowing any spiders.
More Information
We hear this quote frequently, in small and large companies around the world. My team and I have been a part of this evolution. I was asked to join an ambitious project at work. My task, was to build a team to be the first DevTest group in my organization.
The journey I will share with you is how to integrate the agile mindset into your non-agile team, focusing on methodologies, techniques, and technologies.
Performance Monitoring with AOP and Amazon CloudWatchYan Cui
This talk outlines how to easily set up pseudo-RT performance monitoring for your application using an AOP framework such as PostSharp in conjunction with the Amazon CloudWatch service.
This presentation addresses web app integration testing (a.k.a. browser testing) in Python. It focuses on currently-available tools, including one that I wrote, and looks at some specific integration testing concerns for the Django web framework.
Test and Behaviour Driven Development (TDD/BDD)Lars Thorup
In this introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD) or Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) we give a high level description of what it is and why it is useful for developers. Then we go into some details on stubs and mocks, test data, UI testing, SQL testing, JavaScript testing, web services testing and how to start doing TDD/BDD on an existing code base.
A presentation that guides you through the stages of testing your Java enterprise application. Finally it shows you that Arquillian is the best tool for that
While we’re drawing ever closer to Java 9, and even hearing about features in Java 10, it’s also true that many of us are still working with an older version. Even if your project has technically adopted Java 8, and even if you’re using it when coding new features, it’s likely the majority of your code base is still not making the most of what’s available in Java 8 - features like Lambda Expressions, the Streams API, and new Date/Time.
In this presentation, Trisha:
- Highlights some of the benefits of using Java 8 - after all, you’ll probably have to persuade The Management that tampering with existing code is worthwhile
- Demonstrates how to identify areas of code that can be updated to use Java 8 features
- Shows how to automatically refactor your code to make use of features like lambdas and streams.
- Covers some of the pros and cons of using the new features - including suggestions of when refactoring may NOT be the best idea.
Sencha Roadshow 2017: Best Practices for Implementing Continuous Web App TestingSencha
Learn how to create end-to-end functional tests quickly across multiple browsers simultaneously and scale the automated test suite to over thousands of test cases and cross-browser combinations for a complete regression cycle. We will demonstrate how we are able to locate a component, generate test code, and execute tests from TeamCity.
Managing the deployment of code to multiple AWS Lambda functions and updating your API Gateway methods can be manual and time consuming.
In this session, we will show you how to build a deployment pipeline to AWS Lambda using AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service based on Amazon’s internal release automation tooling. We will discuss how to use versioning, which enables you to better manage the different variations of your Lambda functions and API Gateway methods in your development workflow (e.g., development, staging, and production). We will walk through how to automate the entire release process of your application from development, to staging, and finally to production; performing automated integration tests at each stage.
Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to developing software for complex needs by deeply connecting the implementation to an evolving model of the core business concepts.
Amazon pioneered cloud services in 2006 thereby providing organizations the capability to flexibly scale their infrastructure with high reliability. Since then other cloud service providers like Microsoft, Google and others have joined the bandwagon with the central idea of enabling its customers to completely outsource the overhead of managing their infrastructure. This has paved the ground for various offerings for infrastructure management commonly known as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). These offerings have enabled companies to experiment with new ideas and continue iterations with minimal upfront investment.
The human resource management landscape is ripe for a similar disruption. Companies are realizing that flexible on-demand human resource provisioning can enable it to solve business challenges better, faster and cheaper. Resource services being available on demand is often referred to as Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS). TaaS enables organizations get to right on-demand workforce which can thrive in the continuously evolving digital landscape. This allows companies to be more responsive and focused on user needs.
Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting an Outsourced Testing Service Provider 2014–15Cognizant
Cognizant has been recognized as “Market Leader” in Ovum Decision Matrix on Outsourced Testing Service Providers. According to the report, Cognizant stands out for how it articulates the implications of end-to-end responsibility and aligns them with organizational issues around testing services.
This presentation is about the cloud terminology services “TaaS: Terminology as a Service” established within the EU-funded TaaS project. TaaS provides the following user-friendly, collaborative, and multilingual terminology services for translation and localization businesses among others:
· Search terminology in various sources
· Identify term candidates in your documents and extract them automatically
· Look up translation candidates in various sources
· Refine and approve terms and their translations
· Share your terminology with other users
· Collaborate with your friends & colleagues
· Use your terminology in other working environment
TaaS is available for open Beta testing at www.termunity.com
The research within the project TaaS leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), grant agreement no 296312
The Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) provides a framework to speed business process validation, eliminate redundancies, ensure high business process quality, and reduce risk to the organization.
Key Goal of TCoE is to accelerate the delivery of innovation across an enterprise, while driving down the risk and cost of change, thereby stay ahead in competition.
Software testing is a long and multi-layer process which involves a lot of development and probing for the software. Quality assurance and quality management have never been as important as they are now.
Forget Big Data. It's All About Smart DataAlan McSweeney
This proposes an initial smart data framework and structure to allow the nuggets of value contained in the deluge of largely irrelevant and useless data to be isolated and extracted. It enables your organisation to ask the questions to understand where it should be in terms of its data state and profile and what it should do to achieve the desired skills level across the competency areas of the framework.
Every organisation operates within a data landscape with multiple sources of data relating to its activities that is acquired, transported, stored, processed, retained, analysed and managed. Interactions across the data landscape generate primary data. When you extend the range of possible interactions business processes outside the organisation you generate a lot more data.
Smart data means being:
• Smart in what data to collect, validate and transform
• Smart in how data is stored, managed, operated and used
• Smart in taking actions based on results of data analysis including organisation structures, roles, devolution and delegation of decision-making, processes and automation
• Smart in being realistic, pragmatic and even skeptical about what can be achieved and knowing what value can be derived and how to maximise value obtained
• Smart in defining an achievable, benefits-lead strategy integrated with the needs business and in its implementation
• Smart in selecting the channels and interactions to include – smart data use cases
Smart data competency areas comprise a complete set of required skills and abilities to design, implement and operate an appropriate smart data programme.
26 Disruptive & Technology Trends 2016 - 2018Brian Solis
Introducing the “26 Disruptive Technology Trends for 2016 – 2018.” In this report, we’ll explore some of the disruptive trends that are affecting pretty much everything over the next few years at least those that I’m following. It’s not just tech, though. The report is organized by socioeconomic and technological impact.
Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list of every technology and societal trend bringing about disruption on planet Earth. What follows thought definitely affects the evolution of digital Darwinism, the evolution of society and technology and its impact on behavior, expectations and customs.
DMBOK 2.0 and other frameworks including TOGAF & COBIT - keynote from DAMA Au...Christopher Bradley
DAMA DMBoK 2.0 keynote presentation at DAMA Australia November 2013.
Overview of DMBOK, what's different in 2.0, and how the DMBOK co-exists and successfully interoperates with other frameworks such as TOGAF and COBIT
Updated with revised DMBoK 2 release date
chris.bradley@dmadvisors.co.uk
Digital Strategy 101 is an overview of the current state of digital strategy and an exploration of core concepts, deliverables, and thought-leaders relevant to young practitioners.
Automate across Platform, OS, Technologies with TaaSThoughtworks
"TaaS" is an open-source product that allows you do achieve the "correct" way of doing integration testing across a variety of products via Test Automation.
Typically in organizations, there are multiple projects / products. Many organizations like to have a common Test Automation solution across these products in an effort to standardize the framework.
However, this is not a good idea! Each product should be tested using the tools and technologies that are "right" for it. Yet - these different products talk with each other and you need to test the integration between them in an automated way.
Integration Testing in Enterprises using TaaSAnand Bagmar
Typically in organizations, there are multiple projects / products. These products may be of implemented using tech-stacks over many years. Yet - they interact with each other in some way. To manage the complexity around Test Automation, many organizations prefer to have a common Test Automation solution across these products in an effort to build, standardize and maintain the framework.
However, this is not a good idea! With this approach one potentially ends up having to compromise on the quality of automation that can be done for each product, limited by the toolset.
The better approach would be to use the tools and technologies that are "right" for each product. This does have other disadvantages, but you would ensure each product is well tested! The only missing piece that remains is that these different products talk with each other. You need to test the integration between them in an automated way to verify all is well.
"TaaS" is an open-source product solution that allows you do achieve the "correct" way of doing integration testing across a variety of products via Test Automation.
Example:
For one set of products, Selenium-based toolset may be the right choice, where as for legacy reasons, QTP may be used for some other product. With TaaS - you will be able to automate the Integration Testing between these products, by re-using the tests already implemented in the individual product suites.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Getting Started with Serverless Architectures (CMP211)Amazon Web Services
Serverless architectures let you build and deploy applications and services with infrastructure resources that require zero administration. In the past, you had to provision and scale servers to run your application code, install and operate distributed databases, and build and run custom software to handle API requests. Now, AWS provides a stack of scalable, fully-managed services that eliminates these operational complexities.
In this session, you learn about the concepts and benefits of serverless architectures and the basics of the serverless stack AWS provides (e.g., AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway). We discuss use cases such as data processing, website backends, serverless applications and "operational glue". After that, you get practical tips and tricks, best practices, and architecture patterns that you can take back and implement immediately.
Talk presented at DevOpsDays in Auckland (2017) discussing how DevOps applies to Embedded Software Development. This talk discusses the approaches Navico have taken in the past and are planning to do going forward.
Release software is no less important than activities that precede it.
The Continuous Delivery is a set of practices and methodologies that build an ecosystem for the software development lifecycle.
We will see how to build this ecosystem around the applications developed, for which this release activities becomes a low-risk, inexpensive, fast and predictable.
Continuous delivery makes teams more agile and quickens the pace of innovation. Too often, though, teams adopt continuous delivery without defining the meta components or putting the right safety mechanisms in place. In this session, we'll start from the meta components and transform a typical software release process into one that will scale and is safe. We'll use DevOps techniques like continuous integration, a variety of non-production testing stages, rollbacks, redundancy, canary deployments and synthetic tests. We'll use AWS services such as Lambda, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CloudWatch alarms and dashboards.
Speakers:
Brent Maxwell, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Daniel Zoltak, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
One of the most fundamental challenges of CI/CD is the ability to balance between Quality, Time, and Cost. Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), along with Docker and Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR), has changed the game for many by making resource management very simple. For Okta, it has enabled the Continuous Integration team to maximize throughput while minimizing cost. In this session we will show you how Okta has created a flexible CI system with ECS, Docker, ECR, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon RDS, and Amazon SQS. Okta runs 30,000 tests with each developer commit, and releases 10,000 new lines of code each week to production. The CI system, built 100% on AWS, must be able to handle load while keeping cost under control. This talk is oriented toward developers looking to achieve efficient resource and cost management without compromising speed or quality.
Udvid din test portefølje med coded ui test og cloud load testPeter Lindberg
Slides fra min session på Campus Days 2014 i København.
Vi tager et kig på at automatisere tests med Coded UI tests, og blandt andet udnytte de tests som testerne allerede har lavet og optaget i Microsoft Test Manager, og sætte strøm til dem så de f.eks. kan afvikles automatisk i dine builds.
Vi kigger også nærmere på Load Test, der med introduktionen af Visual Studio Online er blevet lidt mere tilgængeligt, med test tid tilgængelig som en del af dit MSDN abonnement, som man kan benytte sig af til at få trykprøvet sine applikationer uden at skulle bekymre sig om infrastruktur.
Despite the belief that a shared context and collaboration drives quality, too often, software testers and quality professionals struggle to find their place within today's integrated agile teams. This session is a practitioner’s view of testing and testing practices within an iterative/incremental development environment. We will begin with a discussion of some of the challenges of testing within an agile environment and delve into the guiding principles of Agile Testing and key enabling practices. Agile Testing necessitates a change in mindset, and it is as much, if not more, about behavior, as it is about skills and tooling, all of which will be explored.
#ESPC18 How to do #devops with the #SharePoint Framework and why it matters?Vincent Biret
Slides supporting the session at the European SharePoint Conference 2018. Mostly talking about continuous integration, automated testing and continuous deployment
Testing for Logic App Solutions | Integration MondayBizTalk360
In this Integration Monday session, Mike discussed the challenges and approaches for some of the common testing scenarios when delivering integration solutions with Microsoft Azure.
Similar to Agile2013 - Integration testing in enterprises using TaaS - via Case Study (20)
In this talk, we will talk about, and see examples of various types of patterns you can use for:
- Build your Test Automation Framework
- Test Data Management
- Locators / IDs (for finding / interacting with elements in the browser / app)
Using these patterns you will be able to build a good framework, that will help keep your tests running fast, and reliably in your CI / CD setup!
Change Tyres In A Moving Car - Make Functional Test Automation Effective KeynoteAnand Bagmar
https://confengine.com/conferences/selenium-conf-2022/proposal/17141/changing-tyres-in-a-moving-car-making-functional-test-automation-effective
In my experience, I have seen teams struggle with more than one, and in many cases, all of the above statements.
On retrospection, I have realized, that most of these challenges are because of a combination of the following issues:
Lack of holistic vision, understanding, skills, and capabilities for taking on this seemingly easy activity of functional test automation
Lack of time for design, implementation, and maintenance of the automated test code
In this session, I will share, with examples, the features & capabilities that are not used right in Test Automation implementation resulting in you answering “NO” to the above statements. These are anti-patterns of functional automation implementation and have a negative impact on the quality of feedback from your automated tests.
More importantly, I will share approaches and solutions of how you can avoid these anti-patterns and evolve to answer “YES” to each of the above statements.
Slides from my talk on "Rewrite Vs Refactor" given at Agile India 2021. https://confengine.com/conferences/agile-india-2021/proposal/15495/rewrite-vs-refactor
In this session, I will share various examples and experiences and as a result of being in such situations, the factors I looked at when enhancing the code-base to decide - should I refactor or rewrite the code-under-consideration to be able to move forward faster, while moving towards the long-term vision.
Though I will focus on various examples of Test Automation, this session is applicable for any role that writes / maintains code of any nature.
Next Generation Functional & Visual Testing powered by AIAnand Bagmar
Slides from hands-on workshop at Agile India 2021.
Machine setup instructions are available in the proposal - https://confengine.com/conferences/agile-india-2021/proposal/15552/next-generation-functional-amp-visual-testing-powered-by-ai
In this workshop, using numerous examples, we will explore:
Why Automated Visual Validation is essential to be part of your Test Strategy
How Visual AI increases the coverage of your functional testing, while reducing the code, and increasing stability of your automated tests
Potential solutions / options for Automated Visual Testing, with pros & cons of each
How an AI-powered tool, Applitools Eyes, can solve this problem
Hands-on look at Applitools Visual AI and how to get started using it
The Best Test Automation Framework is...Anand Bagmar
I had the privilege of delivering the opening keynote at the recent Future Of Testing event focused on Test Automation Frameworks on 30th September 2021. My topic was “The best test automation framework is …”.
Here is the mind map I used in my keynote presentation.
https://applitools.com/future-of-testing-frameworks-north-america-2021/
Slides from my talk on how to Eradicate Flaky Tests from AppiumConf 2021
https://confengine.com/conferences/appium-conf-2021/proposal/15581/eradicate-flaky-tests
Slides used in workshop on "Getting started with Appium 2.0" at AppiumConf 2021
https://confengine.com/conferences/appium-conf-2021/proposal/15634/getting-started-with-appium-20
Visual Validation - The missing tip of the automation pyramid @AgileIndia2020Anand Bagmar
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2020/proposal/11065/visual-validation-the-missing-tip-of-the-automation-pyramid
The top of the pyramid is our UI / end-2-end functional tests - which simulate end-user behavior and interactions with the product-under test.
While Automation helps validate functionality of your product, aspects of UX validations can only be seen and captured by the human eye and is hence mostly a manual activity. This is an area where AI & ML can truly help.
With everyone wanting to be Agile, make quick releases, the look & feel / UX validation, which is a slow, and error-prone activity, quickly becomes a huge bottleneck. In addition, with any UX related issues propping up cause huge brand-value and revenue loss, may lead to social-trolling and worse - dilute your user-base.
In this session, using numerous examples, we will explore:
Why Automated Visual Validation is essential to be part of your Test Strategy
Potential solutions / options for Automated Visual Testing, with pros & cons of each
How an AI-powered tool, Applitools Eyes, can solve this problem.
Does your functional automation really add value?Anand Bagmar
We all know that automation is one of the key enablers for those on the CI-CD journey.
Most teams are:
• implementing automation
• talking about its benefits
• up-skilling themselves
• talking about tooling
• etc.
In my experience, unfortunately most of the functional automation that is built is:
• not optimal
• not fit-for-purpose
• does not run fast enough
• gives inconsistent feedback, hence unreliable
Hence, for the amount of effort invested in implementing automation, are you really getting the value from this activity?
In this talk, we will discuss these challenges and why it would lead to poor ROI of automation. More importantly, we will discuss the following techniques to make automation valuable:
• know the objective for the automation framework
• establish criteria for tests to be automated
• design your framework with proper abstraction layers
• develop using appropriate design patterns
It is easy to measure code coverage when running unit tests.
However, very frequently the following questions come up:
- How can we measure API test coverage and e2e / UI test coverage?
- Does e2e / UI test coverage add value?
- If not, what other data can we look at to know if the e2e tests have good coverage?
This session is about understanding the above questions, and finding solutions for the same.
When one has fun at work, work becomes fun. However, daily pressures, metrics, KPIs, and what not, have dissolved the fun, and made work drudgery in various ways. This creates stress for individuals, in teams, and across teams, there is mistrust, unnecessary competition, blame, finger-pointing ….What better way to learn, and re-learn the basics of life, work, team-work - than to play a game, have fun, and correlate it with how life and work indeed should be treated as a game, and we should have fun in this journey. Only then can people truly succeed, and so can organisations.Here, we will play a game – “Collaboration - A Taboo!” – where you will –Re-learn collaboration techniques via a game!Learning applicable for individuals & teams, in small or big organisationsRe-live your childhood when playing this gameBe prepared for a twist which will leave you thinking!
Visual Validation - The Missing Tip of the Automation PyramidAnand Bagmar
The Test Automation Pyramid is not a new concept. The top of the pyramid is our UI / end-2-end functional tests - which should cover the breadth of the product.
What the functional tests cannot capture though, is the aspects of UX validations that can only be seen and in some cases, captured by the human eye. This is where the new buzzwords of AI & ML can truly help.
In this session, we will explore why Visual Validation is an important cog in the wheel of Test Automation and also different tools and techniques that can help achieve this. We will also see a demo of Applitools Eyes - and how it can be a good option to close this gap in automation!
What is Agile Testing? How does Automation help?Anand Bagmar
Agile Methodology is not new. Many organisations / teams have already adopted Agile way of Software Development or are in the enablement journey for the same.
What does this mean for Testing? There is no doubt that the Testing approach and mindset also needs to change to be in tune with the Agile Development methodology.
Learn what does it mean to Test on Agile Projects. Also, learn how Test Automation approach needs to change for the team to be successful!
Also, see the skills and capabilities required to make anyone in the Quality / Testing role add tremendous value to the team!
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
8. Principles
for
building
an
Automa(on
Framework
Code
Quality
Design
PaBerns
Abstrac(on
Layers
Refactor
Pairing
Evolve
Extend
9. Prac(ces
for
building
an
Automa(on
Framework
Configurable
Con(nuous
Integra(on
(CI)
Screenshots,
Video
Recording
Logging
Tools
&
U(li(es
Test
Data
No
Copy-‐Paste
14. Outlook
for
Windows
• White
/
QTP
Outlook
for
Mac
• Automator
Outlook
Web
Access
(OWA)
• Selenium
/
Ruby
Outlook
Sync
for
Android
• RoboBum
/
Java
15. For
a
user
who
has
installed
and
configured
Outlook
on
– Windows
OS
–
desktop
version,
and,
– Android
device
–
naBve
mobile
app
– Mac
OS
–
desktop
version
– …
An
email
draQed
in
one
product
is
reflected
in
the
other
products
How
will
you
Automate
the
IntegraBon
Test
….
16. End-‐2-‐End
Integra-on
Tests
(Test
Framework
for)
Outlook
on
Windows
(Test
Framework
for)
Outlook
Sync
on
Android
Create
&
Save
as
DraE
1
Verify
DraE
4
Verify
DraE
present
2
Modify
DraE
3
Orchestrator
17. Can
you
use
the
same
technology
stack
for
automa(ng
the
tes(ng
of
each
variant
of
Outlook?
The
Problem
18. Outlook
for
Windows
• White
/
QTP
Outlook
for
Mac
• Automator
Outlook
Web
Access
(OWA)
• Selenium
/
Ruby
Outlook
Sync
for
Android
• RoboBum
/
Java
29. End-‐2-‐End
Integra-on
Tests
Framework
TaaS
Client
Test
Framework
for
Outlook
on
Windows
TaaS
Server
Test
Framework
for
Outlook
Sync
on
Android
TaaS
Server
Create
&
Save
as
DraE
1
Verify
DraE
4
Verify
DraE
present
2
Modify
DraE
3
Orchestrator
Service
Providers
37. Return
the
Results
• Output
parameters
– As
console
output
between
special
markers
• Console
logs
• ExcepBons
(if
any)
• All
return
values
are
in
“json”
format
45. TaaS
Server
• Specify
contract
details
• Implement
contracts
• Return
the
results
• Run
TaaS
Server
(REST
service)
• Serve
TaaS
Client
requests
– As
separate
processes
46. TaaS
Client
• Collect
the
input
parameters
• Invoke
the
contract
• Consume
the
result
• ConBnue
with
test
orchestraBon
47. Summary
of
Features
• Contract
– Decoupling
of
technology
barriers
– Timeout
• Passing
of
input
parameters
as
Environment
variables
• Result
as
json
– Output
parameters
– Console
logs
and
errors
– ExcepBons
• Developed
in
Ruby
using
Sinatra
48. Why
is
this
a
Good
Idea?
• Automate
the
last-‐mile
• No
code
duplicaBon
• ImplementaBon
of
contract
lies
with
the
framework
tesBng
that
product
– Evolves
with
product
changes
• Decoupling
of
technologies
49. Why
is
this
a
Good
Idea?
• Helps
in
Manual
TesBng
(setup
of
data)
• Anyone
can
use
it
• Each
product
is
tested
in
the
“best”
possible
way
• Its
–
providing
Test
as
a
Service!!!
50. How
can
you
use
TaaS?
• Open
source
(apache2
license)
• Available
on
github!
• Available
on
rubygems.org
!
51. Steps
to
Follow
• NegoBate
contract
details
• Setup
&
configure
TaaS
Server
– Implement
contracts
– Return
the
results
– Run
TaaS
Server
(REST
service)
• Configure
TaaS
Client
53. Before
you
use
TaaS
…
IdenBfy
–
• Is
TaaS
the
right
thing
for
you?
54. • Error
codes
for
the
service
• Service
Discovery
• Security
• Create
a
Java
/
.Net
version
of
TaaS
Server
• Asynchronous
requests
How
can
You
help
TaaS?
55. What
TaaS
did
for
me?
• Be
creaBve
• Find
InnovaBve
soluBon
to
the
problem
• Another
open
source
contribuBon
56. abagmar@gmail.com
@BagmarAnand
hip://about.me/anand.bagmar
Thank
you