Shadow DOM is kind of web standard that developers use to encapsulate their custom HTML code and style components so that no other global style components can override their code. It ensures that a component will work in any environment, even if other CSS or JavaScript is run on the page i.e. Shadow DOM hides away the complexity of the components from the rest of the page because it renders separately from main DOM.

Selenium legacy selectors are not able to interact these custom elements under the shadow DOM so we need java script to interact with shadow DOM elements and we also require JavascriptExecutor interface for their execution.

We will also talk about the WebdriverIO tool v5.5.0, which implicitly support Shadow DOM elements.

Onestic QA department made and maintained test suites, which was a huge bottleneck in our development process.

In order to solve it, management bought us an idea: our developers must be able to build their tests using a DSL framework without friction. QA maintain a big library that provides resources to developers. From there, they were free to extend this library in each project. With all of this we have a CI process, a 1 hour execution to monitor our results and of course our bot, SpongeBot.

SpongeBot can check 40+ e-commerce sites, with 4+ environments, for desktop and mobile platforms always available for developers.

With this solution we achieve to decentralize the work, add value testing production and the confidence in SpongeBot notifications if something goes wrong.

Are you the only one contributing to your test suite, because others feel too intimidated to contribute to it?

Have you ever looked at a test fail and not known where to investigate first?

This talk will cover techniques for uncomplicating your test suites, so they can clearly test exactly what's needed to be tested, allowing others to contribute tests. When the process of writing tests is shared, everyone has an impact on quality, and that can be quite contagious for a company's culture.

In addition, this talk will cover techniques for failing transparently, so you will no longer feel stressed triaging test fails. Quality is something shared by the entire team, so anyone should be able to triage test fails. When tests fail for a specific, clear reason, you'll be thanking your past self for writing logic to fail transparently, saving you half a day going down a rabbit hole.

We learn more from our failures than our successes. I want to share one of my failure stories, where I learned that coding is not the most important task in Test Automation.

A failure taught me that coding is not the most important task in Test Automation. I fixed a bug, added tests, and shipped it to production. After that, a bug report came in showing that the fix created a new bug. I felt bad, I did not understand how that happened. A hotfix solved the issue, but the root cause was not addressed: what did I miss?

By taking a step back, I understood the situation, it all happened by overseeing basic concepts in testing (like understanding how the system works). The problem was that coding had more priority than creating a test plan. After this, I prioritized tasks better to avoid this situation to happen again.

This talk shows that testing concepts are more important than ever, in a time where tools promise to do everything, we focus less on what and how to test, and more in using tools to test. It outlines how a test strategy can leverage a continuous testing setup. Finally, it shows that failing is ok, but failing again for the same reasons is not.

There are thousands ways if not more to setup your automation testing environment. It is often crucial when it comes to stability and maintainability. While you can build a custom framework that fits your needs there are often already sophisticated setups or frameworks available that get you up and running very quickly.

WebdriverIO is one of these frameworks that is written in Node.js. It gets you up and running within minutes and allows you to scale up your test suite while maintaining your execution time by running tests in parallel. With its huge project community it is an ideal choice for small as well as big projects that use modern frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.js.

In this workshop you will learn everything you need to know to run a successful, stable and maintainable WebdriverIO framework. It starts with an introduction to the project and the basic concepts and will end with a sophisticated framework that includes testing strategies like Frontend Performance Testing as well as complex browser interaction with Puppeteer.

Leading-edge applications are dynamic and adaptive in capabilities that require people to use increasingly dexterous tools and supporting infrastructure, including microservices. All of these applications leverage data in new ways. Decoration and tagging of data with intelligent meta-data have become more important than data itself. To keep up with evolving needs, enterprise devs across industries are shifting from traditional app architectures in favor of more fluid architecture for building data-centric applications.

Microservices break traditionally structured applications into manageable pieces that can be developed and maintained independently. microservices are often decoupled, allowing for updates with little to no downtime, as the other components can continue running.

Moving to distributed Microservices ecosystem brings its own challenges; Among them is the loss of visibility into the system, and the complex interactions now occurring between services. Monitoring these applications only reports the health of it but Observability provides granular insights about the behavior of the system along with rich content. In this talk, we will cover the difference of Monitoring and Observability, data path engineering challenges, pillars of observability, distributed tracing of various microservices, testing in distributed microservices ecosystem, automated observability, etc.

It is predicted that till 2025 there will be over 75 billion devices spewing 180 zettabytes of data and generating up to 6 trillion dollars. That enormous increase force companies to introduce a continuous approach to deliver the product as fast as possible and be able to compete on the market.

The main question is how to test application for end user among so much hardware equipment and ecosystems combining HW, FW, mobile devices and complex backend architecture? Considering all factors and possible obstacles is it for companies a real “A New Hope” for companies or just simply “Mission Impossible”?

I will take the participants on a journey to the IoT world. It will be a talk about the challenges that any tester will face at some point. I will present the dangers, risks and snares but also good practices and practical approach to mobile E2E test automation for the IoT solutions in CI approach.

Technical examples will be presented using Python languages and supported by physical devices (mobile phones and IoT equipment).

Typically, industry software testing practice is to separate load testing from functional testing. Different teams with different skills and expertise do their testing at different times, and each evaluates the results against its own criteria.

Anton Angelov will present to you how you can reuse your functional tests for load testing. We will review the design of a load testing engine that will reuse the same functional tests and at the end of the execution, generate a comprehensive report. We will also talk about how to utilize the new features in Selenium 4.0 in this load testing solution. As part of the reviewed tooling, there will be a discussion about the best possible checks you can do in your coded load testing library and the essential load testing metrics you need to collect during the run.

Nowadays a lot of people are using JavaScript based automation frameworks, and why not? They are the closest language to what your developers are using and it's easy to use. You just

• Install NodeJS on your local machine

• npm install this-module

• npm install that-module,

• script a test-case

• npm run test

And you're done, easy peasy, isn’t it? But when you look at your project you see something called

• node_modules

• package.json

• package-lock.json

And you hear your developers talk about

• ES6, ES7
• TypeScript
• Polyfills
• NodeJS LTS, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (and counting)
• Promises, asynchronous behavior
• ...

And you are like……………...

If you recognize yourself in this then this presentation might be useful for you, because during this presentation I will cover NodeJS, the biggest dependency of your dependencies dependency.

A big part of the testing community is using Java based tooling to do automation. Selenium Java bindings and RestAssured are goto testing libraries for a lot of us. Yet most of the applications we are testing nowadays are written in JavaScript; the language of the web. I speak from experience when I say that writing your automation code in the same language as your application under test is written in will bring you a lot of benefits. It creates a common ground for knowledge sharing, problem solving and ultimately: developers willing to write and debug integration tests.

However, as a tester, programming might not be second nature to you and learning a new untyped language like JavaScript, with all its quirks, can look like a daunting task. Enter TypeScript: a typed superset of JavaScript which will instantly make you feel at home!

Everyone starts off with a simple grid setup which involves a hub and one or more nodes.

This traditional setup is a good start but the moment one starts to get serious with the selenium grid and decide to house their own selenium grid for their local executions, that is when issues start.

My experiences with the Selenium grid in the past couple of years has led me to get introduced some of the most prevalent problems with maintaining an in-house selenium grid.

• Nodes get unhooked randomly due to network glitches.
• Nodes introduce false failures due to memory leaks.
• Selenium Grid running out of capacity.
• Nodes require OS upgrades/patches etc.
• Needing to deal with auto upgrades by browsers (especially chrome and firefox)

Some of these issues I managed to fix by building a "Self Healing" Grid wherein the nodes automatically get restarted after they have serviced "n" tests. But that still didn’t solve many of these other problems.

That was when I felt, what if there was an on-demand selenium grid.

What if the Grid could do the following ?

• The Grid auto scales itself in terms of the nodes based on the current load.
• The Grid does not require a lot of infrastructure to support it.
• The Grid can plug itself into some of the cloud providers or leverage a solution such as Docker so that the nodes can be spun and shutdown at will.

That was how the idea of "Just Ask" an on-demand grid was born.

Just-Ask is an on-demand grid. It has no nodes attached to it.

It’s designed to spin off nodes on demand, run test against the newly spun off node and after test runs to completion, clean-up the node as well. The node can be backed by anything. It could be Docker (or) it could be a VM running on any of the popular clouds.

The session aspires to walk the audience through with my experiments with the selenium grid, my learnings on the selenium grid internals and how I used all of that knowledge to build my own On Demand Selenium Grid. What better avenue to share these learnings than a Selenium Conference.

The session will introduce the audience to the grid internals and their concepts such as

• What is a Selenium Remote Proxy ? What is it used for? What can you do with it?
• What is a Hub (or) Node level Servlet ? When would you need one ?
• All of this followed by a quick demo on "Just Ask", the on-demand grid that I have built and open sourced here: https://github.com/rationaleEmotions/just-ask

The workshop is the full day version of my Selenium Conf London talk where you will securely and efficiently build a modern Selenium Grid in AWS. Topics will include;

- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

- Designing your Selenium Grid for the AWS Cloud

- Security Fundamentals

- Maximum result for minimum costs

- And of course, run a script to prove it all works

This is a hands-on workshop where each participant will create their own grid in the AWS cloud using starter scripts provided. As a result, all participants will need to have created a new AWS account prior to this workshop which they have full control over and a laptop.

Note: Participants will accrue a small amount of AWS charges for the infrastructure they build during the day, but it will be minor.