Writing tests for modern websites is quite tricky. And systems that have device-browser interaction, challenge test engineers even more.

In this talk I'll show how we use Clojure to solve problems of functional and integration testing for mobile and web applications, at Helpshift.

We use wrappers and libraries written in Clojure to leverage well known tools such as Calabash for Android, Appium for iOS, and Selenium WebDriver for the web.

Clojure is a powerful modern Lisp. In this talk, I hope to show how we benefit from many of its features, including fast, interactive REPL oriented development, rich set of data structures, and the power of macros.

Our project was a classic example of Selenium gone wild! As our team embraced the test automation journey, we went crazy and implemented tons of Selenium tests, one for every permutation possible. Soon we realized our feedback cycles were delayed. Our builds were taking hours instead of minutes. And we had a set of complex, fragile tests, which resulted in a lot of false-negative scenarios and finger pointing.

At this point, our team had realized that this is not the path forward. We decided to seriously look at our Selenium tests. We pretty much moved 80% of our Se tests to lower-layers (non-GUI based) tests. And now we have the right testing pyramid on our project.

Join us, as we explain our journey (strategy, techniques, tools, mindset-change and approaches we took) through this transition.

WebDriverJS and Cucumber.js are new entrants in the WebDriver eco-system and are gaining popularity by the day! These JavaScript ports for WebDriver and Cucumber enable us to test the JavaScript UI apps built using frameworks like Angular JS, Ember.JS with great ease.

The UI tests can be written in JavaScript, thereby using the same technical stack of the application and the tests seamlessly integrate with the code for continuous integration and continuous delivery.

The session is a demonstration of test framework using Cucumber.js and WebDriverJS for testing an open-source Angular JS application.

Microsoft. Just the name of the company alone can send some open-source software activists into fits of apoplexy. From the days when executives of the company compared open-source software to "a virus", the company has been seen as incredibly hostile to open-source software. It is surprising how much has changed over the years.

This is the story of how the Selenium project has managed its relationship with the software company, from the initial, tentative, often contentious and borderline hostile reaching out, to today's open engagement. The story is told through the prism of the Internet Explorer Driver project, with slight digressions to the .NET bindings and other Microsoft technology stacks. The journey is funny, sometimes frustrating, but always entertaining, and there may be a surprise announcement or two.

In the last few years, use of the Selenium WebDriver API to automate web, hybrid, and native applications on mobile platforms has exploded. The creation and proliferation of such projects as Selendroid, ios-driver, and Appium have given WebDriver users the ability to leverage their exisiting knowledge to the Android and iOS platforms. Windows Phone has not had a similar automation story, until now. This presentation introduces a new, actively-maintained open-source implementation of the WebDriver API designed to be used on the Windows Phone platform.