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.
Slides from workshop conducted at ThoughtWorks, Pune in vodQA, on Sat, 27th August, 2016.
Workshop Facilitators - Anand Bagmar, Smriti Tuteja, Pallipuspa Samal, Rohit Singhal, S Ramalingam, Shilpa G
More information about vodQA, and this workshop can be found from the following links -
https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2016/08/vodqa-pune-less-talk-only-action-agenda.html
https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/vodQA
https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/waat
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!
To Deploy or Not-To-Deploy - decide using TTA's Trend & Failure AnalysisAnand Bagmar
Here are the slides from my recent talks on "To Deploy or Not-To-Deploy - decide using TTA's Trend and Failure Analysis"
More information available from my blog:
http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/tta
Build the "right" regression suite using Behavior Driven Testing (BDT)Anand Bagmar
Behavior Driven Testing (BDT) is an evolved way of thinking about Testing. It helps in identifying the 'correct' scenarios, in form of user journeys, to build a good and effective (manual & automation) regression suite that validates the Business Goals.
Sharing (less) Pain of using Protractor & WebDriverAnand Bagmar
Slides from my talk in Selenium Conference London 2016 about "Sharing (Less) Pain with Protractor & Selenium WebDriver"
See blog for more information - http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2016/11/shared-relatively-less-pain-of-using.html
My blog: https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com
Build the "right" regression suite using Behavior Driven Testing (BDT)Anand Bagmar
Slides from the workshop conducted in ThoughtWorks, vodQA Gurgaon on - "What is BDT, and how can you use this technique to identify the 'right' regression suite for your product"
Bhumika S, Anand Bagmar (Thoughtworks)
How many times do we test the same things at multiple layers, multiple levels, adding time to the build process and testing cycle, delaying the feedback?
We know what to test and how to test, but what is the right place to test it?
In this workshop, we will demonstrate how we, as QA’s, can identify which tests can be classified as unit tests, integration tests, and functional tests. Using a case study, we will see how each component can be tested as part of unit testing; the integration of different parts and the functioning of a software system as a whole, and how functional tests fit into this big picture. We will then bring all these tests together to understand and build the testing pyramid and how it enables us to build the right testing framework with fewer Selenium, i.e., functional tests.
Slides from workshop conducted at ThoughtWorks, Pune in vodQA, on Sat, 27th August, 2016.
Workshop Facilitators - Anand Bagmar, Smriti Tuteja, Pallipuspa Samal, Rohit Singhal, S Ramalingam, Shilpa G
More information about vodQA, and this workshop can be found from the following links -
https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2016/08/vodqa-pune-less-talk-only-action-agenda.html
https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/vodQA
https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/waat
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!
To Deploy or Not-To-Deploy - decide using TTA's Trend & Failure AnalysisAnand Bagmar
Here are the slides from my recent talks on "To Deploy or Not-To-Deploy - decide using TTA's Trend and Failure Analysis"
More information available from my blog:
http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/tta
Build the "right" regression suite using Behavior Driven Testing (BDT)Anand Bagmar
Behavior Driven Testing (BDT) is an evolved way of thinking about Testing. It helps in identifying the 'correct' scenarios, in form of user journeys, to build a good and effective (manual & automation) regression suite that validates the Business Goals.
Sharing (less) Pain of using Protractor & WebDriverAnand Bagmar
Slides from my talk in Selenium Conference London 2016 about "Sharing (Less) Pain with Protractor & Selenium WebDriver"
See blog for more information - http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2016/11/shared-relatively-less-pain-of-using.html
My blog: https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com
Build the "right" regression suite using Behavior Driven Testing (BDT)Anand Bagmar
Slides from the workshop conducted in ThoughtWorks, vodQA Gurgaon on - "What is BDT, and how can you use this technique to identify the 'right' regression suite for your product"
Bhumika S, Anand Bagmar (Thoughtworks)
How many times do we test the same things at multiple layers, multiple levels, adding time to the build process and testing cycle, delaying the feedback?
We know what to test and how to test, but what is the right place to test it?
In this workshop, we will demonstrate how we, as QA’s, can identify which tests can be classified as unit tests, integration tests, and functional tests. Using a case study, we will see how each component can be tested as part of unit testing; the integration of different parts and the functioning of a software system as a whole, and how functional tests fit into this big picture. We will then bring all these tests together to understand and build the testing pyramid and how it enables us to build the right testing framework with fewer Selenium, i.e., functional tests.
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!
Learn what does it mean to Test on Agile Projects, techniques for non-Automated testing, what is Test Automation (Test Pyramid discussion) + CI
Delivered by Prasad Kalgutkar & Amit Gundiyal at vodQA - Agile Testing, at ThoughtWorks, Pune on Sat, 9th Jan 2016
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.
Slides from the workshop I conducted on "Client-side Performance Testing".
Abstract of the workshop:
In this workshop, we will see the different dimensions of Performance Testing and Performance Engineering, and focus on Client-side Performance Testing.
Before we get to doing some Client-side Performance Testing activities, we will first understand how to look at client-side performance, and putting that in the context of the product under test. We will see, using a case study, the impact of caching on performance, the good & the bad! We will then experiment with some tools like WebPageTest and Page Speed to understand how to measure client-side performance.
Lastly - just understanding the performance of the product is not sufficient. We will look at how to automate the testing for this activity - using WebPageTest (private instance setup), and experiment with yslow - as a low-cost, programatic alternative to WebPageTest.
Future of Testing, Test Automation and The Quality AnalystAnand Bagmar
In vodQA Hyderabad, I spoke on what I think is the "Future of Testing, Test Automation and the Quality Analyst". This is an evolved presentation from what I did in vodQA Bangalore (http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.in/2014/06/future-of-testing-test-automation-and.html)
Page-Object pattern is very commonly used when implementing Automation frameworks. However, as the scale of the framework grows, there is a limitation on how much reusability really happens. It inherently becomes very difficult to separate the test intent from the business domain.
I talk about this problem, and the solution I have been using - Business Layer - Page-Object pattern, which has helped me keep my code DRY.
For more details (links to slides, etc.), see my blog: http://goo.gl/biRn4n
The Test Automation Pyramid is a useful model to help us understand and discuss automated testing efforts. Generally speaking it is a good practice to have lots of unit tests, fewer component integration tests, fewer API tests, and even fewer UI tests.
Testing Hourglass at Jira Frontend - by Alexey Shpakov, Sr. Developer @ Atlas...Applitools
** Full webinar recording: **
Two leading developers -- from Jira/ Atlassian and Pushpay -- shared their insights, tip, tricks, and best practices on how to maintain quality across the Dev-Test-Release cycle, without losing speed or coverage.
Talk 1: Reducing the Risk of Rapid Development and Continuous Delivery -- by David Corbett (Director of Engineering @ Pushpay)
In this talk, David showed us what goes on under the hood of Pushpay's development cycle.
He also talked about the ways in which Pushpay is empowering Dev and Test teams to be more autonomous, and prompting them to use advanced test automation tools & techniques, such as visual validation, in order to gain confidence in deploying many times each day.
Talk 2: Testing Hourglass at Jira Frontend -- by Alexey Shpakov (Sr. Developer - Jira Frontend @ Atlassian)
We often hear people talk about the testing pyramid.
In Jira Frontend, we talk about testing hourglass -- that means we expect our developers to be responsible for the whole lifecycle of the code -- starting from creating tests and finishing with running a 24/7 on-call.
In this talk, Alexey did a deep-dive into the various types of testing they have in Jira Frontend, and discussed the various tools that allow them to deliver Jira to customers in a low-risk manner.
How to Add Test Automation to your Quality Assurance ToolbeltBrett Tramposh
SQA job postings are still in abundance, but it is rare to find one that does not include some form of test automation pedigree. Brett will present the topic and then lead the discussion as we explore the various paths to building your test automation acumen, and learn how to add this valuable skill-set to your resume. If you are already an SQA with test automation experience we encourage you to participate and bring your learning forward and into the discussion where we will compare and contrast Computer Science degrees, Code Camps, licensed automation tools such as HP UFT (QTP), test frameworks and scripting tools such as jMeter and SOAPUI. There is much to explore on this topic and we want everyone to leave with a few key areas they can start building on today.
Stop Testing (Only) The Functionality of Your Mobile Apps!Applitools
** Full webinar recording: https://youtu.be/F-AS7q4ANBc **
We have heard a lot about Mobile Testing and how it differs from Web-based testing. However, do you know there is more to test on Mobile than just functionality and device-related testing?
Listen to Appium expert, Justin Ison, and Sr. Automation Architect, Anand Bagmar, in this in-depth session, where they shared hands-on real-world examples that are critical to include in your Mobile Testing.
Talking points included:
* Understand when you need to go beyond regular testing approaches - ex: when to use real devices vs emulators/simulators; when to consider on-field testing along with beta/staged releases of your apps
* Be aware of the pitfalls - ex: insights from chaos/monkey testing, and ways to build observability into your app
* Learn techniques that reduce various risks along the Dev-Test-Release cycle - ex: accessibility and visual testing
[webinar] Best of Breed: Successful Test Automation Practices from Innovative...Applitools
While test automation is a struggle for most teams everywhere, there are companies who have mastered their technique and are executing a very successful test automation strategy.
In this talk, Angie Jones shares the research on how top companies and global brands are approaching test automation, and successfully implementing it.
Angie was joined by a panel of QA executives, who also shared what they are seeing in the industry in regards to successful (and not so successful) test automation practices:
* Theresa Neate - QA Practise Lead @ Real Estate Group
* Amrit Sadhab - Digital Practise Lead @ Origin Energy
* Karen Mangio - QA Practise Lead @ NAB Mobile
* Cameron Bradley - Head of QA @ Tabcorp
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.
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
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.
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!
Learn what does it mean to Test on Agile Projects, techniques for non-Automated testing, what is Test Automation (Test Pyramid discussion) + CI
Delivered by Prasad Kalgutkar & Amit Gundiyal at vodQA - Agile Testing, at ThoughtWorks, Pune on Sat, 9th Jan 2016
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.
Slides from the workshop I conducted on "Client-side Performance Testing".
Abstract of the workshop:
In this workshop, we will see the different dimensions of Performance Testing and Performance Engineering, and focus on Client-side Performance Testing.
Before we get to doing some Client-side Performance Testing activities, we will first understand how to look at client-side performance, and putting that in the context of the product under test. We will see, using a case study, the impact of caching on performance, the good & the bad! We will then experiment with some tools like WebPageTest and Page Speed to understand how to measure client-side performance.
Lastly - just understanding the performance of the product is not sufficient. We will look at how to automate the testing for this activity - using WebPageTest (private instance setup), and experiment with yslow - as a low-cost, programatic alternative to WebPageTest.
Future of Testing, Test Automation and The Quality AnalystAnand Bagmar
In vodQA Hyderabad, I spoke on what I think is the "Future of Testing, Test Automation and the Quality Analyst". This is an evolved presentation from what I did in vodQA Bangalore (http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.in/2014/06/future-of-testing-test-automation-and.html)
Page-Object pattern is very commonly used when implementing Automation frameworks. However, as the scale of the framework grows, there is a limitation on how much reusability really happens. It inherently becomes very difficult to separate the test intent from the business domain.
I talk about this problem, and the solution I have been using - Business Layer - Page-Object pattern, which has helped me keep my code DRY.
For more details (links to slides, etc.), see my blog: http://goo.gl/biRn4n
The Test Automation Pyramid is a useful model to help us understand and discuss automated testing efforts. Generally speaking it is a good practice to have lots of unit tests, fewer component integration tests, fewer API tests, and even fewer UI tests.
Testing Hourglass at Jira Frontend - by Alexey Shpakov, Sr. Developer @ Atlas...Applitools
** Full webinar recording: **
Two leading developers -- from Jira/ Atlassian and Pushpay -- shared their insights, tip, tricks, and best practices on how to maintain quality across the Dev-Test-Release cycle, without losing speed or coverage.
Talk 1: Reducing the Risk of Rapid Development and Continuous Delivery -- by David Corbett (Director of Engineering @ Pushpay)
In this talk, David showed us what goes on under the hood of Pushpay's development cycle.
He also talked about the ways in which Pushpay is empowering Dev and Test teams to be more autonomous, and prompting them to use advanced test automation tools & techniques, such as visual validation, in order to gain confidence in deploying many times each day.
Talk 2: Testing Hourglass at Jira Frontend -- by Alexey Shpakov (Sr. Developer - Jira Frontend @ Atlassian)
We often hear people talk about the testing pyramid.
In Jira Frontend, we talk about testing hourglass -- that means we expect our developers to be responsible for the whole lifecycle of the code -- starting from creating tests and finishing with running a 24/7 on-call.
In this talk, Alexey did a deep-dive into the various types of testing they have in Jira Frontend, and discussed the various tools that allow them to deliver Jira to customers in a low-risk manner.
How to Add Test Automation to your Quality Assurance ToolbeltBrett Tramposh
SQA job postings are still in abundance, but it is rare to find one that does not include some form of test automation pedigree. Brett will present the topic and then lead the discussion as we explore the various paths to building your test automation acumen, and learn how to add this valuable skill-set to your resume. If you are already an SQA with test automation experience we encourage you to participate and bring your learning forward and into the discussion where we will compare and contrast Computer Science degrees, Code Camps, licensed automation tools such as HP UFT (QTP), test frameworks and scripting tools such as jMeter and SOAPUI. There is much to explore on this topic and we want everyone to leave with a few key areas they can start building on today.
Stop Testing (Only) The Functionality of Your Mobile Apps!Applitools
** Full webinar recording: https://youtu.be/F-AS7q4ANBc **
We have heard a lot about Mobile Testing and how it differs from Web-based testing. However, do you know there is more to test on Mobile than just functionality and device-related testing?
Listen to Appium expert, Justin Ison, and Sr. Automation Architect, Anand Bagmar, in this in-depth session, where they shared hands-on real-world examples that are critical to include in your Mobile Testing.
Talking points included:
* Understand when you need to go beyond regular testing approaches - ex: when to use real devices vs emulators/simulators; when to consider on-field testing along with beta/staged releases of your apps
* Be aware of the pitfalls - ex: insights from chaos/monkey testing, and ways to build observability into your app
* Learn techniques that reduce various risks along the Dev-Test-Release cycle - ex: accessibility and visual testing
[webinar] Best of Breed: Successful Test Automation Practices from Innovative...Applitools
While test automation is a struggle for most teams everywhere, there are companies who have mastered their technique and are executing a very successful test automation strategy.
In this talk, Angie Jones shares the research on how top companies and global brands are approaching test automation, and successfully implementing it.
Angie was joined by a panel of QA executives, who also shared what they are seeing in the industry in regards to successful (and not so successful) test automation practices:
* Theresa Neate - QA Practise Lead @ Real Estate Group
* Amrit Sadhab - Digital Practise Lead @ Origin Energy
* Karen Mangio - QA Practise Lead @ NAB Mobile
* Cameron Bradley - Head of QA @ Tabcorp
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.
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
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.
What Good is this Tool? A Guide to Choosing the Right Application Security Te...Kevin Fealey
Abstract:
Choosing the right Application Security Testing (AST) tool can be challenging for any security program, and after rolling it out, discovering the real security value it brings can be downright discouraging. No single tool can solve all of all of your security problems, but unfortunately, that is exactly how many of them are marketed. This is compounded by sales teams who convince executive leadership that security programs should be built around their tools, rather than fitting each tool within a well-planned security program. The primary takeaways from this talk are:
• An understanding the real value of each type of AST tool (SAST, DAST, IAST);
• How to leverage your tools for better security visibility and process efficiency;
• Steps to find the right tool for your security program;
• Keys to finding the best stage of the SDLC to implement each tool type within your security program;
• How to integrate new tools with your existing DevOps or Agile environments and processes
Additional Takeaways:
• Examine the strengths and limitations of SAST, DAST, and IAST tools
• Learn how to choose the right tools for your security program
• Discover how to seamlessly integrate your tools into existing DevOps and Agile environments and processes
• Provide security visibility to developers, managers, and executives by enhancing your existing technology
• Learn to use your tools to improve the efficiency of security tasks that are currently manual
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.
Principles and Practices in Continuous Deployment at EtsyMike Brittain
Presented at ALM Forum 2014.
Like what you've read? We're frequently hiring for a variety of engineering roles at Etsy. If you're interested, drop me a line or send me your resume: mike@etsy.com.
http://www.etsy.com/careers
Beyond TDD: Enabling Your Team to Continuously Deliver SoftwareChris Weldon
Many project teams have adopted unit testing as a necessary step in their development process. Many more use a test-first approach to keep their code lean. Yet, far too often these teams still suffer from many of the same impediments: recurrent integration failures with other enterprise projects, slow feedback with the customer, and sluggish release cycles. With a languishing feedback loop, the enterprise continues to put increasing pressure on development teams to deliver. How does an aspiring agile team improve to meet the demands of the enterprise?
Continuous integration is the next logical step for the team. In this talk, you’ll learn how continuous integration solves intra and inter-project integration issues without manual overhead, the value added by continuous integration, and how to leverage tools and processes to further improve the quality of your code. Finally, we discuss the gold standard of agile teams: continuous deployment. You’ll learn how continuous deployment helps close the feedback loop with your customers, increases visibility for your team, and standardizes the deployment process.
Achieving DevOps Success: Enabling Continuous Delivery Goals through Applica...Go2Group, Inc.
Culture, process, methods and tools – these are the key elements to DevOps transformation success. By employing a robust and dependable application integration platform, learn how the seamless connection of all these elements in conjunction with continuous delivery best practices enables continuous delivery goals of DevOps
Visual Studio ALM and DevOps Tools WalkthroughAngela Dugan
If you're considering moving to Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services, this deck will walk you through the highlights, of which there are a TON!
Transform Software Testing and Quality with the Neotys-Inflectra PlatformInflectra
On July 17, 2019 Inflectra and Neotys hosted a joint webinar called: Transform Software Testing & Quality with the Neotys-Inflectra Platform. The webinar demonstrated the powerful capabilities of this combined QA and performance testing platform vis-a-vis legacy tools.
The is the presentation used in this webinar.
Continuous delivery requires more that DevOps. It also requires one to think differently about product design, development & testing, and the overall structure of the organization. This presentation will help you understand what it takes and why one would want to deliver value to your customers multiple times each day. #CIC
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan Ardita Karaj
In today’s environment of plummeting software delivery cycle times, test automation becomes a more critical and strategic necessity. How can we possibly keep up with software delivery's explosive pace while retaining satisfactory test coverage? How do we keep the reins on costs and reduce risk? Carl Nagle maintains that the long-term solution is a greater level of “sustainable” test automation. The Software Automation Framework Support (SAFS) method separates test design from test execution with a data-driven, action-based approach that encapsulates volatile application-specific data into readily localizable “maps” for simple maintenance. Test designs (scripts or programs) are completely independent of the ready-to-run SAFS engines that will execute them. And since the test design methodology does not change over long periods of time, testers can focus more on getting robust automation in place quickly and pay less attention to each new technology, testing tool, or test IDE. Join Carl to learn how test automation thrives when testers and tools are not tied up in application-specific silos.
Test driven development as the state of the art of todays software developement. These slides provides a short introduction into test driven development (TDD) and gives some arguments why you should use tddTDD or why not
An overview of agile testing and how to incorporate it into an agile software development process.
From a Webinar by uTest: http://www.utest.com/webinar_agile_testing.htm
Drive Faster Quality Insights through Customized Test AutomationPerfecto by Perforce
When making the transformation to DevOps and agile, many organizations find it hard to meet tough product release schedules and to cope with large data sets. Triaging failures across multiple platforms has become tedious and time-consuming.
Reporting test-driven development (RTDD) is an innovative approach to agile testing that helps you write and implement tests with the end in mind (i.e., the test reports). RTDD puts structure, governance, and advanced capabilities into your test automation strategy.
RTDD enables the entire product team to collaborate and make data-driven decisions in real time, resulting in test scenarios and test suites that are structured and easy to manage.
Similar to Integration Testing in Enterprises using TaaS (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
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!
The What, Why and How of Analytics TestingAnand Bagmar
Here are slides from my talk on "What, Why and How of Analytics Testing" at Selenium Conference, Berlin 2017.
This talk focusses on Analytics related to Browser & Mobile Native apps, with impact on / of IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data.
See my blog for more details - https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/10/analytics-forgotten-child.html
Patterns of a “good” test automation frameworkAnand Bagmar
Slides from my talk in Phoenix, AZ at STPCon about Patterns of a “good” test automation framework. See my blog for more details - https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/03/patterns-in-test-automation-framework.html
Slides from my 4-hour workshop on Client-Side Performance Testing conducted at Phoenix, AZ in STPCon 2017 (March).
Workshop Takeaways:
Understand difference between is Performance Testing and Performance Engineering.
Hand’s on experience of some open-source tools to monitor, measure and automate Client-side Performance Testing.
Examples / code walk-through of some ways to automate Client-side Performance Testing.
See blog for more details - https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/03/workshop-client-side-performance.html
Multiple Your Crypto Portfolio with the Innovative Features of Advanced Crypt...Hivelance Technology
Cryptocurrency trading bots are computer programs designed to automate buying, selling, and managing cryptocurrency transactions. These bots utilize advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques to analyze market data, identify trading opportunities, and execute trades on behalf of their users. By automating the decision-making process, crypto trading bots can react to market changes faster than human traders
Hivelance, a leading provider of cryptocurrency trading bot development services, stands out as the premier choice for crypto traders and developers. Hivelance boasts a team of seasoned cryptocurrency experts and software engineers who deeply understand the crypto market and the latest trends in automated trading, Hivelance leverages the latest technologies and tools in the industry, including advanced AI and machine learning algorithms, to create highly efficient and adaptable crypto trading bots
A Comprehensive Look at Generative AI in Retail App Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Traditional software testing methods are being challenged in retail, where customer expectations and technological advancements continually shape the landscape. Enter generative AI—a transformative subset of artificial intelligence technologies poised to revolutionize software testing.
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This presentation emphasizes the importance of data security and legal compliance for Nidhi companies in India. It highlights how online Nidhi software solutions, like Vector Nidhi Software, offer advanced features tailored to these needs. Key aspects include encryption, access controls, and audit trails to ensure data security. The software complies with regulatory guidelines from the MCA and RBI and adheres to Nidhi Rules, 2014. With customizable, user-friendly interfaces and real-time features, these Nidhi software solutions enhance efficiency, support growth, and provide exceptional member services. The presentation concludes with contact information for further inquiries.
Developing Distributed High-performance Computing Capabilities of an Open Sci...Globus
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Why React Native as a Strategic Advantage for Startup Innovation.pdfayushiqss
Do you know that React Native is being increasingly adopted by startups as well as big companies in the mobile app development industry? Big names like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have already integrated this robust open-source framework.
In fact, according to a report by Statista, the number of React Native developers has been steadily increasing over the years, reaching an estimated 1.9 million by the end of 2024. This means that the demand for this framework in the job market has been growing making it a valuable skill.
But what makes React Native so popular for mobile application development? It offers excellent cross-platform capabilities among other benefits. This way, with React Native, developers can write code once and run it on both iOS and Android devices thus saving time and resources leading to shorter development cycles hence faster time-to-market for your app.
Let’s take the example of a startup, which wanted to release their app on both iOS and Android at once. Through the use of React Native they managed to create an app and bring it into the market within a very short period. This helped them gain an advantage over their competitors because they had access to a large user base who were able to generate revenue quickly for them.
How Recreation Management Software Can Streamline Your Operations.pptxwottaspaceseo
Recreation management software streamlines operations by automating key tasks such as scheduling, registration, and payment processing, reducing manual workload and errors. It provides centralized management of facilities, classes, and events, ensuring efficient resource allocation and facility usage. The software offers user-friendly online portals for easy access to bookings and program information, enhancing customer experience. Real-time reporting and data analytics deliver insights into attendance and preferences, aiding in strategic decision-making. Additionally, effective communication tools keep participants and staff informed with timely updates. Overall, recreation management software enhances efficiency, improves service delivery, and boosts customer satisfaction.
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I ...Juraj Vysvader
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I didn't get rich from it but it did have 63K downloads (powered possible tens of thousands of websites).
Listen to the keynote address and hear about the latest developments from Rachana Ananthakrishnan and Ian Foster who review the updates to the Globus Platform and Service, and the relevance of Globus to the scientific community as an automation platform to accelerate scientific discovery.
Quarkus Hidden and Forbidden ExtensionsMax Andersen
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Come join this talk to see some tips and tricks for using Quarkus and some of the lesser known features, extensions and development techniques.
Climate Science Flows: Enabling Petabyte-Scale Climate Analysis with the Eart...Globus
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a global network of data servers that archives and distributes the planet’s largest collection of Earth system model output for thousands of climate and environmental scientists worldwide. Many of these petabyte-scale data archives are located in proximity to large high-performance computing (HPC) or cloud computing resources, but the primary workflow for data users consists of transferring data, and applying computations on a different system. As a part of the ESGF 2.0 US project (funded by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science), we developed pre-defined data workflows, which can be run on-demand, capable of applying many data reduction and data analysis to the large ESGF data archives, transferring only the resultant analysis (ex. visualizations, smaller data files). In this talk, we will showcase a few of these workflows, highlighting how Globus Flows can be used for petabyte-scale climate analysis.
Paketo Buildpacks : la meilleure façon de construire des images OCI? DevopsDa...Anthony Dahanne
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Innovating Inference - Remote Triggering of Large Language Models on HPC Clus...Globus
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Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
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Drawing on a real-life project from the HR industry, the various challenges will be demonstrated: data protection, self-healing, business continuity, security, and transparency of data processing. This systematized approach allowed to create a secure AWS cloud infrastructure that not only met strict compliance rules but also exceeded the client's expectations.
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Your Digital Assistant.
Making complex approach simple. Straightforward process saves time. No more waiting to connect with people that matter to you. Safety first is not a cliché - Securely protect information in cloud storage to prevent any third party from accessing data.
Would you rather make your visitors feel burdened by making them wait? Or choose VizMan for a stress-free experience? VizMan is an automated visitor management system that works for any industries not limited to factories, societies, government institutes, and warehouses. A new age contactless way of logging information of visitors, employees, packages, and vehicles. VizMan is a digital logbook so it deters unnecessary use of paper or space since there is no requirement of bundles of registers that is left to collect dust in a corner of a room. Visitor’s essential details, helps in scheduling meetings for visitors and employees, and assists in supervising the attendance of the employees. With VizMan, visitors don’t need to wait for hours in long queues. VizMan handles visitors with the value they deserve because we know time is important to you.
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One Subscription, Four Modules – Admin, Employee, Receptionist, and Gatekeeper ensures confidentiality and prevents data from being manipulated
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One app for all industries – a Visitor Management System that works for any organisation.
Stress-free Sign-up
Visitor is registered and checked-in by the Receptionist
Host gets a notification, where they opt to Approve the meeting
Host notifies the Receptionist of the end of the meeting
Visitor is checked-out by the Receptionist
Host enters notes and remarks of the meeting
Customizable Components
Scheduling Meetings – Host can invite visitors for meetings and also approve, reject and reschedule meetings
Single/Bulk invites – Invitations can be sent individually to a visitor or collectively to many visitors
VIP Visitors – Additional security of data for VIP visitors to avoid misuse of information
Courier Management – Keeps a check on deliveries like commodities being delivered in and out of establishments
Alerts & Notifications – Get notified on SMS, email, and application
Parking Management – Manage availability of parking space
Individual log-in – Every user has their own log-in id
Visitor/Meeting Analytics – Evaluate notes and remarks of the meeting stored in the system
Visitor Management System is a secure and user friendly database manager that records, filters, tracks the visitors to your organization.
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We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
6. AUDIENCE SURVEY
What are the average number of
products / projects in your
organization’s portfolio?
… large organization?
7. AUDIENCE SURVEY
What is the typical technology stack of
these products?
… large organization?
… number of products and projects?
8. AUDIENCE SURVEY
How many of you are part of merged /
acquired companies?
Do you have the same technology across
the “new” products?
… large organization?
… number of products and projects?
… same technology stack?
9. How many of you work in distributed
teams?
… large organization?
… number of products and projects?
… same technology stack?
… merged companies – same technology stack?
AUDIENCE SURVEY
10. Have you heard of a
Common Test Automation framework?
Good? Bad?
Easy? Difficult?
… large organization?
… number of products and projects?
… same technology stack?
… merged companies – same technology stack?
… distributed teams?
AUDIENCE SURVEY
11. If a product technology stack cannot be
unified in an organization, then WHY
FORCE the Test Automation technology
stack to be the same across the
organization?
15. Outlook for
Windows
• White / QTP
Outlook for
Mac
• Automator
Outlook
Web Access
(OWA)
• Selenium /
Ruby
Outlook
Sync for
Android
• Appium /
Espresso
17. For a user who has installed and configured
Outlook on
• Windows OS – desktop version, and,
• Android device – native mobile app
• Mac OS – desktop version
• …
An email drafted in one product is
reflected in the other products
18. End-‐2-‐End
Integra-on
Tests
(Test
Framework
for)
Outlook
on
Windows
(Test
Framework
for)
Outlook
Sync
on
Android
Create & Save
as Draft
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Verify Draft4
Verify Draft
present2
Modify Draft
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Orchestrator
19. Can you use the same technology
stack for automating the testing
of each variant of Outlook?
THE PROBLEM
20. Outlook for
Windows
• White / QTP
Outlook for
Mac
• Automator
Outlook
Web Access
(OWA)
• Selenium /
Ruby
Outlook
Sync for
Android
• Appium /
Espresso
32. RETURN THE RESULTS
¨ Output parameters
¨ As console output between special markers
¨ Console logs
¨ Exceptions (if any)
¨ All return values are in “json” format
47. TAAS SERVER
¨ Specify contract details
¨ Implement contracts
¨ Return the results
¨ Run TaaS Server (REST service)
¨ Serve TaaS Client requests
¨ As separate processes
48. TAAS CLIENT
¨ Collect the input parameters
¨ Invoke the contract
¨ Consume the result
¨ Continue with test orchestration
49. WHY IS THIS A GOOD IDEA?
¨ Automate the last-mile
¨ No code duplication
¨ Implementation of contract lies with the framework
testing that product
¨ Evolves with product changes
¨ Decoupling of technologies
50. WHY IS THIS A GOOD IDEA?
¨ Helps in Manual Testing (setup of data)
¨ Anyone can use it
¨ Each product is tested in the “best” possible way
¨ Its – providing Test as a Service!!!
51. HOW CAN YOU USE TAAS?
¨ Open source (apache2 license)
¨ Available on github!
¨ Available on rubygems.org !
¨ Read about it from my blog
52. STEPS TO FOLLOW
¨ Negotiate contract details
¨ Setup & configure TaaS Server
¨ Implement contracts
¨ Return the results
¨ Run TaaS Server (REST service)
¨ Configure TaaS Client
54. BEFORE YOU USE TAAS …
Identify –
¨ Is TaaS the right thing for you?
55. HOW CAN YOU HELP?
¨ Error codes for the service
¨ Service Discovery
¨ Security
¨ Create a Java / .Net version of TaaS Server
¨ Asynchronous requests
56. WHAT TAAS DID FOR ME?
¨ Be creative
¨ Find Innovative solution to the problem
¨ Another open source contribution