Michael Palotas presented on mobile test automation. He discussed Selenium and tools like Selendroid and iOS-Driver for automating mobile apps. Palotas emphasized that automation is software development and developers should consider questions around supported platforms, test infrastructure integration, and scaling strategies. He demonstrated mobile test automation and advocated for an open source approach.
Selendroid is a test automation framework which drives of the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps). Tests are written using the Selenium 2 client API.
Selendroid can be used on emulators and real devices and can be integrated as a node into the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing.
Features of selendroid
- The app under test must not be modified in order to automate it
- Between the native and the web context can be switched back and forth, which basically means the concept of automating native or hybrid apps are the same.
- Different locator types are supported to find elements
- Gestures are supported: Advanced User Interactions API
- Selendroid can interact with multiple Android devices (emulators or hardware devices) at the same time
- Existing Emulators are started automatically
- Selendroid supports hot plugging of hardware devices
- It can be integrated as a node into the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing
- Multiple Android target API support (10 to 19)
- Build in Inspector to simplify test case development.
Documentation is available at http://selendroid.io
Agenda:
After covering the basics about how to find and interact with UI elements, we will look into techniques of writing maintainable tests with selendroid.
In the end we will run our tests in parallel using the Selenium Grid.
The workshop repository can be found here:
https://github.com/DominikDary/selendroid-workshop
Android Test Automation â one year laterDominik Dary
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This talk would showcase the road of eBay in the field of mobile test automation and our applied learnings from the past. It would also include showing Selendroid as a tool in action. As well the presentation would showcase the interaction between test engineers and developers and show the use of other tools in the field of mobile automation.
Automated Testing and Continuous Deployment for Mobile Apps with Jenkins CloudBees
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Slides from Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group Meetup at Yahoo! Campus 09/30/12
Presented by Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Mark Prichard (CloudBees), with Matt Solnit (SOASTA)
Selendroid is a test automation framework which drives of the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps). Tests are written using the Selenium 2 client API.
Selendroid can be used on emulators and real devices and can be integrated as a node into the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing.
Features of selendroid
- The app under test must not be modified in order to automate it
- Between the native and the web context can be switched back and forth, which basically means the concept of automating native or hybrid apps are the same.
- Different locator types are supported to find elements
- Gestures are supported: Advanced User Interactions API
- Selendroid can interact with multiple Android devices (emulators or hardware devices) at the same time
- Existing Emulators are started automatically
- Selendroid supports hot plugging of hardware devices
- It can be integrated as a node into the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing
- Multiple Android target API support (10 to 19)
- Build in Inspector to simplify test case development.
Documentation is available at http://selendroid.io
Agenda:
After covering the basics about how to find and interact with UI elements, we will look into techniques of writing maintainable tests with selendroid.
In the end we will run our tests in parallel using the Selenium Grid.
The workshop repository can be found here:
https://github.com/DominikDary/selendroid-workshop
Android Test Automation â one year laterDominik Dary
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This talk would showcase the road of eBay in the field of mobile test automation and our applied learnings from the past. It would also include showing Selendroid as a tool in action. As well the presentation would showcase the interaction between test engineers and developers and show the use of other tools in the field of mobile automation.
Automated Testing and Continuous Deployment for Mobile Apps with Jenkins CloudBees
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Slides from Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group Meetup at Yahoo! Campus 09/30/12
Presented by Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Mark Prichard (CloudBees), with Matt Solnit (SOASTA)
[Srijan Wednesday Webinars] Building a High Performance QA TeamSrijan Technologies
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Speaker: Karim Fanadka, HPE Software
Session Slides: http://www.srijan.net/webinar/building-high-performance-qa-team/
Karim is a DevTest manager at HPE Software and his team is responsible for testing their new SaaS product, the StormRunner Load. In this webinar, Karim shares his experience of building a QA team that is agile, efficient, and uses the latest testing frameworks. He will also talk about continuous testing, automation, test based analytics and hotfixes.
Karim start's off the challenges in agile QA and then moves on to solving these challenges. The best part is when he shares the trick to delivering to production every 1.5 months, even for a high pressure enterprise product.
The Q/A session also brings out some very interesting topics, going into greater details and various suggestions that you can implement for your own QA teams.
[Srijan Wednesday Webinar] Mastering Mobile Test Automation with AppiumSrijan Technologies
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Speaker: Justin Ison
Check out the complete session slides here: http://www.srijan.net/webinar/mobile-...
This session dives into the history of Appium, and it's pros and cons. The speaker also looks at how to write a good test setup and collect meaningful data points. We look at quick demos and comparisons of how Appium significantly reduces test times.
And you definitely should hang around till the Q&A session, where participants pitch in with their issues and queries. The speaker answers all the questions, sharing additional information and tips on Appium.
Finding the right test framework is the key for getting your automated process right. This slide-show is a list of a few automated UI test frameworks, each with its characteristics, for Android and iOS.
Getting Started with Mobile Test Automation & AppiumSauce Labs
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Organizations today rely more and more on their mobile apps for their business. Many organizations today are seeing over 50% of their web traffic coming in via mobile devices and In some cases the mobile app is the only way customers interact with the business. In this Webinar, Sauce Labsâ partner, Infostretch will cover best practices in implementing Appium to enable you to quickly automate your mobile tests.
Automating Hybrid Applications with AppiumSauce Labs
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When creating a mobile application, organisations have a few options to choose from; mobile web, native or a hybrid application. Where web apps are just websites that can be accessed on the internet via a mobile browser like Chrome or Safari, native apps are applications that are developed for a specific platform such as Android or iOS. Hybrid apps are different because they possess elements from native apps and web apps.
When automating web applications, Selenium commands are used. Nine out of ten times the same automation script can be used for mobile web applications as our desktop web applications. With native apps however, we need to look deeper into the differences between Android and iOS apps before we can use Appium commands.
But how should you automate hybrid apps, can or do you need to choose one of the two automation strategies or is there also a hybrid approach for automating hybrid apps?
Thatâs what we are going to talk about during this webinar. We will be looking into how to detect a hybrid application for Android and iOS, the doâs and the donâts when it comes to automating a hybrid application and we will provide you with tips and tricks on how to make this work for both Android and iOS.
By the end of this webinar, youâll be able to create your own Appium scripts to automate Android and iOS hybrid mobile applications.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand what a hybrid mobile application is
- How to detect a hybrid mobile application
- Learn how iOS and Android handle hybrid mobile applications
- Learn how to automate hybrid mobile applications
Appium Meetup #2 - Mobile Web Automation Introductionsnevesbarros
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These were the slides for the second appium meetup held at the Gamesys in London, presented by Dan Cueller and Sergio Neves Barros
The demo project mentioned in the slides can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByIdcWPvw1I3Ny1QWkJzZWpvbzA/view?usp=sharing
Top Best Practices for Successful Mobile Test AutomationFred Beringer
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Mobile apps have brought a whole new set of challenges when it comes to testing: Fast paced development cycles with multiple releases per week, multiple app technologies and development platforms to support, tons of devices and form factors, and additional pressure from enterprise and consumers less patient with low quality apps. With these new challenges, come a new set of mistakes testers can make!
Fred has worked with dozens of mobile test teams to help them avoid common traps when building test automation for mobile apps and would like to share some best practices that could be useful to a lot of developers and testers starting with mobile test automation.
Best practices such as:
âą When, what and where to automate?
âą Picking the right wait to handle unreliable back-end calls or device performance
âą Building testability in a mobile app
âą Automating the automation (!)
âą Mix and match performance testing and functional testing
In this talk, Fred will bring some real stories (struggles!) and how small changes in process made these mobile apps 10x more reliable!
Implementing Test Automation in Agile ProjectsDominik Dary
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All new features at eBay Europe are developed using SCRUM. One key success factor for those projects is to have a reliable end-to-end test automation safety net. This presentation illustrates how in addition to a robust automation toolset it is essential to have an integrated approach to test automation design:
Test Aspects - Test Aspects are used to do the functional design of the end-to-end automation test cases. Since this is done upfront, the tester is able to focus on the what rather than the how.
Modeling of the Biz Domain Layer - The Biz Domain Layer is an abstraction layer above the user interface that is implemented in the test code. This layer is divided into pages and flows which are then used in the tests.
Test Implementation - Tests are written in Java, stored in SVN and are executed using the WebDriver Grid (Selenium2). Tests execution can be triggered by all team members via a continuous integration server (Hudson).
Lean Test Automation â it is important to retain and maintain the quality of the tests. Key success factors for this are: Code Reviews, Software Craftsmanship, Test Aspect Reviews and the âDefinition of Doneâ.
Following an integrated approach to test automation ensures high efficiency, low overhead and easier maintenance.
Testing on Mobile Devices with Location ServicesSauce Labs
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During this webinar we look into location services on Android and iOS real devices, as well as emulators and simulators.
We provide you with tips and tricks on when to change the mobile Geo-IP and when to change the mobile GPS, how to use ADB commands to enable the device location, and how to handle the location services permission alerts. We also discuss Appium capabilities for Location Services, using GeoLocation with Appium Desktop, and more.
Key takeaways:
- Understand what Location Services are
- Understand GPS compare to Geo-IP
- Know the Appium commands for Location Services
- The differences in the use of Location Services between Android and iOS
- Learn how to automate tests that involve Location Services
[Srijan Wednesday Webinars] Building a High Performance QA TeamSrijan Technologies
Â
Speaker: Karim Fanadka, HPE Software
Session Slides: http://www.srijan.net/webinar/building-high-performance-qa-team/
Karim is a DevTest manager at HPE Software and his team is responsible for testing their new SaaS product, the StormRunner Load. In this webinar, Karim shares his experience of building a QA team that is agile, efficient, and uses the latest testing frameworks. He will also talk about continuous testing, automation, test based analytics and hotfixes.
Karim start's off the challenges in agile QA and then moves on to solving these challenges. The best part is when he shares the trick to delivering to production every 1.5 months, even for a high pressure enterprise product.
The Q/A session also brings out some very interesting topics, going into greater details and various suggestions that you can implement for your own QA teams.
[Srijan Wednesday Webinar] Mastering Mobile Test Automation with AppiumSrijan Technologies
Â
Speaker: Justin Ison
Check out the complete session slides here: http://www.srijan.net/webinar/mobile-...
This session dives into the history of Appium, and it's pros and cons. The speaker also looks at how to write a good test setup and collect meaningful data points. We look at quick demos and comparisons of how Appium significantly reduces test times.
And you definitely should hang around till the Q&A session, where participants pitch in with their issues and queries. The speaker answers all the questions, sharing additional information and tips on Appium.
Finding the right test framework is the key for getting your automated process right. This slide-show is a list of a few automated UI test frameworks, each with its characteristics, for Android and iOS.
Getting Started with Mobile Test Automation & AppiumSauce Labs
Â
Organizations today rely more and more on their mobile apps for their business. Many organizations today are seeing over 50% of their web traffic coming in via mobile devices and In some cases the mobile app is the only way customers interact with the business. In this Webinar, Sauce Labsâ partner, Infostretch will cover best practices in implementing Appium to enable you to quickly automate your mobile tests.
Automating Hybrid Applications with AppiumSauce Labs
Â
When creating a mobile application, organisations have a few options to choose from; mobile web, native or a hybrid application. Where web apps are just websites that can be accessed on the internet via a mobile browser like Chrome or Safari, native apps are applications that are developed for a specific platform such as Android or iOS. Hybrid apps are different because they possess elements from native apps and web apps.
When automating web applications, Selenium commands are used. Nine out of ten times the same automation script can be used for mobile web applications as our desktop web applications. With native apps however, we need to look deeper into the differences between Android and iOS apps before we can use Appium commands.
But how should you automate hybrid apps, can or do you need to choose one of the two automation strategies or is there also a hybrid approach for automating hybrid apps?
Thatâs what we are going to talk about during this webinar. We will be looking into how to detect a hybrid application for Android and iOS, the doâs and the donâts when it comes to automating a hybrid application and we will provide you with tips and tricks on how to make this work for both Android and iOS.
By the end of this webinar, youâll be able to create your own Appium scripts to automate Android and iOS hybrid mobile applications.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand what a hybrid mobile application is
- How to detect a hybrid mobile application
- Learn how iOS and Android handle hybrid mobile applications
- Learn how to automate hybrid mobile applications
Appium Meetup #2 - Mobile Web Automation Introductionsnevesbarros
Â
These were the slides for the second appium meetup held at the Gamesys in London, presented by Dan Cueller and Sergio Neves Barros
The demo project mentioned in the slides can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByIdcWPvw1I3Ny1QWkJzZWpvbzA/view?usp=sharing
Top Best Practices for Successful Mobile Test AutomationFred Beringer
Â
Mobile apps have brought a whole new set of challenges when it comes to testing: Fast paced development cycles with multiple releases per week, multiple app technologies and development platforms to support, tons of devices and form factors, and additional pressure from enterprise and consumers less patient with low quality apps. With these new challenges, come a new set of mistakes testers can make!
Fred has worked with dozens of mobile test teams to help them avoid common traps when building test automation for mobile apps and would like to share some best practices that could be useful to a lot of developers and testers starting with mobile test automation.
Best practices such as:
âą When, what and where to automate?
âą Picking the right wait to handle unreliable back-end calls or device performance
âą Building testability in a mobile app
âą Automating the automation (!)
âą Mix and match performance testing and functional testing
In this talk, Fred will bring some real stories (struggles!) and how small changes in process made these mobile apps 10x more reliable!
Implementing Test Automation in Agile ProjectsDominik Dary
Â
All new features at eBay Europe are developed using SCRUM. One key success factor for those projects is to have a reliable end-to-end test automation safety net. This presentation illustrates how in addition to a robust automation toolset it is essential to have an integrated approach to test automation design:
Test Aspects - Test Aspects are used to do the functional design of the end-to-end automation test cases. Since this is done upfront, the tester is able to focus on the what rather than the how.
Modeling of the Biz Domain Layer - The Biz Domain Layer is an abstraction layer above the user interface that is implemented in the test code. This layer is divided into pages and flows which are then used in the tests.
Test Implementation - Tests are written in Java, stored in SVN and are executed using the WebDriver Grid (Selenium2). Tests execution can be triggered by all team members via a continuous integration server (Hudson).
Lean Test Automation â it is important to retain and maintain the quality of the tests. Key success factors for this are: Code Reviews, Software Craftsmanship, Test Aspect Reviews and the âDefinition of Doneâ.
Following an integrated approach to test automation ensures high efficiency, low overhead and easier maintenance.
Testing on Mobile Devices with Location ServicesSauce Labs
Â
During this webinar we look into location services on Android and iOS real devices, as well as emulators and simulators.
We provide you with tips and tricks on when to change the mobile Geo-IP and when to change the mobile GPS, how to use ADB commands to enable the device location, and how to handle the location services permission alerts. We also discuss Appium capabilities for Location Services, using GeoLocation with Appium Desktop, and more.
Key takeaways:
- Understand what Location Services are
- Understand GPS compare to Geo-IP
- Know the Appium commands for Location Services
- The differences in the use of Location Services between Android and iOS
- Learn how to automate tests that involve Location Services
TMF2014 Mobile Testing Workshop Michael PalotasKJR
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A very big thank you to Michael Palotas from Grid Fusion & eBay International for taking the time and effort to travel across the globe to present at the Australian Test Managers Forum 2014. If you would like any information on TMF please email tmf@kjross.com.au
Dev ops for cross platform mobile modeveast 12Sanjeev Sharma
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Mobile Apps are not stand alone applications running on a mobile device anymore. Apps today are complex systems with back-ends hosted on clouds, with application servers, databases, API calls to external systems, and of course a powerful app running on a mobile device. Mobile App development and deployment is further complicated with todays need for supporting multiple mobile devices, with multiple OSes, multiple versions of the OSes, multiple form factors and varied network, CPU, GPU and memory specs.
DevOps - the new and growing movement addresses these development and deployment challenges. The goal of DevOps is to align Dev and Ops by introducing a set of principles and practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery. Mobile apps take the need for these practices up a level due to their inherent distributed nature. Multi-platform mobile apps need even more care in applying DevOps principles as there are multiple platforms to be targeted, each with its own requirements, quirks, and nuanced needs.
This talk will introduce attendees to the basic practices of DevOps and then take a look at the DevOps challenges specific to cross-platform Mobile apps and present Best Practices to address them.
Overview of the importance of open governance, open innovation, open standards and open source. Focus on how these principles relate to webinos
Presented by George Vougaris of Vision Mobile
Telerik Platform is the newest and most complete PaaS contender. It combines many of Telerikâs well-known products into one integrated solution and is designed for businesses of any size. It offers a slew of online and offline tools for end-to-end cross-platform development, including an online IDE, Visual Studio integration, prototyping, automated cross-platform testing and deployment, rich analytics, authentication and other backend services, and much more.
This presentation describes the state of mobile software development and demonstrates the Platform's strengths, particularly in its flexibility and integration.
TiConf.eu -- Titanium Developer Conference in Europe, 2013Jeff Haynie
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The Titanium Developer Conference Europe held in Valenica, Spain from February 23-24, 2013.
This is the keynote presentation by CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie.
http://ticonf.eu
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
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In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
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The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as âpredictable inferenceâ.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projectsâ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, youâre in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part âEssentials of Automationâ series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Hereâs what youâll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
Weâll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Donât miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. Whatâs changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
2. Michael Palotas
Gerbiweg 2
8853 Lachen
SWITZERLAND
Email: michael.palotas@gridfusion.net
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WHO AM I?
Head of Productivity & Test Engineering, eBay
Founder, GRIDFUSION
4. QUESTIONS TO ASK
Reuse of existing infrastructure
Supported platforms
Devices / Emulators
Mobile web + native app + webview
App modification
Scaling
Test stack integration / developer use
Continuous Integration support
Reporting capabilities
Programming languages
Runtime inspection / debugging
Jailbreak / Rooting
5. SELENIUM 2 / WEBDRIVER
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14. OPEN SOURCE
It is free
Invest into people instead of licenses
Faster innovation
Independence
Employee engagement
Hiring advantage
Requires a different mindset
15. LESSONS LEARNED
Automation is software development
Ask the right questions beforehand
Think holistically: Web + Mobile
Think about scaling
Not everything needs to be automated
Try Open Source
