As anyone who has maintained a large Selenium test suite knows, the largest costs are not in the running or initial creation of the test suite but in the maintenance time. There are straightforward ways to leverage your framework to minimize flakiness and make it easier to update test code only when needed. We’ll walk through testing a sample real-world application focusing on how each of the components needs to work together.

Having followed best practices set from previous Selenium Conference talks, my team was able to shift from flaky tests to stable and reliable automated tests. During that time, I learned the importance of building trust in the test suite to unite the team as a whole. Once trust was established in the automated tests, it became crucial to the overall software development lifecycle. It has been an interesting journey to gain the confidence of the organization and have them believe that the automation effort has their backs.

In this talk I will cover the following topics:

1. Strategies that I used to make the tests reliable
2. Explaining why it was important to train the manual testers to write feature files and thus help expand the automation suite using their subject matter expertise
3. Presenting ways to improve visibility in automation to reinforce trust

By implementing these steps in my organization, I have built trust not only within the test suite but into the team as a whole.

Continuous testing is an integral part of continuous delivery pipeline. When it comes to mobile application, the testing become increasingly complex.

As part of our internal quarter hackathon at Carousell, we developed an automation testing framework and device lab in 48 hours which has both parallel and distributed mode of running.

We will share about how you can set up a similar device lab in your organization and the best practices to be followed.

During this session I will demonstrate how we can create an end to end test automation framework to test modern AngularJS applications. The framework will be using WebDriver.io as the automation tool. It also promotes re-usability via Page Object Model. It will be a configurable and data driven framework which will use Excel and JSON files. The framework will be based on Behavior Driven Development and also will generate in depth and informative test execution reports which will be idea for test team and management to know the health of the application being tested. As an extra option this test automation framework will be plugged in with web services and micro services testing capability which will make it one of a kind test automation framework that will be of primary need in the test automation industry.

This workshop will provide concepts and best practices about designing and developing test automation projects, using my test framework, called Planotius. This framework uses Selenium, Junit and Java as its core and make the code creation easier even for testers without coding skills.

Furthermore, the abstraction of selenium configurations, setups and features will provide a faster deployment of your test project, allowing the agile team to accomplish their sprints successfully and with quality.