Arjan Blok
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I have 15+ years experience in testing. After starting out as a functional tester I soon grew a hunger for a more technical challenge. I started focussing on test automation and performance testing. Currently I am responsible for making sure that Mendix can confidently release their web IDE multiple times per day.
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TypeScript: your gateway drug to the JavaScript world
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
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!
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