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 which 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.

Appium, often dubbed "Selenium for mobile", at heart its a web server written in NodeJs. Its architecture is modular, which means that it is composed of many small, independently maintained and tested modules. Testing Appium is challenging, but clearly very important, since thousands of users depend on it for their testing. Appium also has all the usual challenges of a large open source project, for example, ensuring consistency of JavaScript code style across hundreds of contributors. It's important to have high-quality and readable code.

This talk is about how Facebook turned a great idea with a terrible track record into a great tool for thousands of developers.

The promise of E2E testing — complex, real-world test scenarios from the point of view of and end user — is appealing.
Many attempts have been made over the years at automating large parts of companies' and developers' testing and release processes, yet most of these efforts ended up in bitter and hard learned lessons about the inherent challenges of the whole approach.

My work at Facebook over the last two years has been making mobile end to end testing at scale a reality.
When others said it couldn't be done, or fell by the wayside, we relentlessly pushed forward, solving problems deemed intractable, and finding new, untold vistas of horror before us

We've come a long way: E2E testing is now an integral part of Facebook's mobile development and release process.
We'll cover what challenges we faced, and how we chose to solve or make them irrelevant.

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 as QA’s we can identify what tests can be classified as unit tests, integration test and functional test. 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.

Ever wanted to write Selenium code in Node.js?  There seems to be a new javascript library written every hour!  Entering the world of Node.js can be a daunting task.  This session will teach you everything you need to know to make the right decisions when selecting what libraries you should implement on your new Node.js Selenium project and what the possible challenges will be.

A big blocker for putting a website on truly continuous production delivery is the amount of time it take to validate that the site works correctly.  Tests themselves take time to run, and test results are unreliable to the point where it takes a human to investigate and interpret them.  When counting the time that it takes to both run and interpret results, test runs for an enterprise web site can take an entire day from inception to useful result.

This session describes common points of failure in test execution that add both latency and unreliability and what can be done to overcome them while still preserving the value of UI validation.  We'll discuss why, after addressing these concerns, UI can be unblocked to reliably field thousands of validation scenarios on a local machine in a matter of minutes. 

Testing strategies and the role of DOM to Database Testing in a world of micro services and client side MVCs.

The trends in software development are making UI testing increasingly difficult. Sites are leveraging more dynamic interactions and moving toward Single Page Applications. Gone are the days when the term “and the page finishes loading” makes any sense. This shift is dramatically increasing the number of flaky tests as well as the costs of such testing relative to the benefits, leaving many organizations wondering if they are worth doing at all. 

The approach to testing that is “good enough” for any given organization is going to vary by context. In this talk, I’ll cover some different testing options and the advantages and disadvantages to each. We’ll discuss the dangers of mocking and stubbing, the problems with relying on testing journeys, and dealing with bloated test suites that are difficult to maintain.

Another trend in software development is away from monolithic architectures and toward micro services and service oriented architectures. This approach provides opportunities for decreasing the costs and overhead of UI testing while still maintaining all of the benefits of DOM to Database verification.

In the modern era, we have many different cloud testing services to choose from. These cloud services are useful and help reduce the burden of building and maintaining your own Selenium Grid environment. However, there are many scenarios in which you need your tests running locally and quickly, such as you work for the government (or agency), you have sensitive software/data you cannot expose to the cloud, or service costs are too expensive for your organization.

This presentation will feature getting started with setting up your own mobile device grid, running your tests in parallel, running in CI (Jenkins), and the lessons I have learned along the way.

Responsive Website Design have enabled mobile phones and tablets to fundamentally changed how we interact with the internet. Now we have instant access to any website we choose to visit and this causes headaches for testers, especially automated testers.

This changes how automation, specifically Selenium, is implemented as the test suite needs to be maintainable, which is difficult and will get unruly if not maintained.

The talk will be specifically about responsive websites however the same techniques can be applied to native app testing.

Utilizing a test case generator allows for the test conditions(browser, OS and resolution) to exist outside of the test itself allows a single test to be able to test against all testing combinations without having to code for the other options explicitly. With the different options outside of the test the driver is easily instantiated and the browser windows are modified prior to test execution.

As a sole(or two man team) automated test engineer for 4 years in over 5 projects these are my tools and techniques on how to make your automated test suite not only maintainable but adaptable to any device that you need to test with minimal overhead.

With all the focus on Test practices and tools getting better for the present, it is easy to forget about the Future of Testing, especially in terms of Tools and Infrastructure? A question that always comes up in my mind - “Are we so caught up in the past and present, that we will not be as effective in the future?”

In this talk, we will go on a journey to figure out what new challenges are coming up in the future, and more importantly, what do we need to do next to prepare for it. Also, just preparing for the future is not sufficient. We have an opportunity to stretch beyond our current set of skills, capabilities and boundaries to influence out future! The question is - will we make use of this opportunity? Will Selenium help us take the step in the right direction? Or, will it hold us back?

Creating a mobile app is now the new cross platform problem. The major mobile platforms tend to gear their development tool chain towards individuals and their workstations.  But what if you want to introduce a CI solution to this environment? What if your app is launching on more than one platform and there's a team of 20+ developers working on it? What if your tests are more than just Selenium based?

This is normally where you can look to the cloud for scale but mobile has a ton of challenges to do so.  Come and learn from some of the challenges and pitfalls I've encountered while working towards this goal.

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.

Learn more about this problem, and the solution (by means of real-project examples) - Business Layer - Page - Object pattern, which has helped me keep my code DRY.