Jim Holmes
Executive Consultant
Guidepost Systems
location_on United States
Member since 5 years
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Jim Holmes
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Jim is an Executive Consultant at Pillar Technology where he works with organizations trying to improve their software delivery process. He's also the owner/principal of Guidepost Systems which lets him engage directly with struggling organizations. He has been in various corners of the IT world since joining the US Air Force in 1982. He’s spent time in LAN/WAN and server management roles in addition to many years helping teams and customers deliver great systems. Jim has worked with organizations ranging from start ups to Fortune 10 companies to improve their delivery processes and ship better value to their customers. When not at work you might find Jim in the kitchen with a glass of wine, playing Xbox, hiking with his family, or banished to the garage while trying to practice his guitar.
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Five Key Tips To Write Better WebDriver Scripts
90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
Anyone can learn to write WebDriver scripts to help with automation and testing. Even team members with no coding experience can learn to help contribute value to their teams, and learn in fairly short order!
This session is targeted to help team members write WebDriver code that's accurate, understandable, and maintainable. Learning these tips will help you and your teams write stable WebDriver scripts that won't require constant tweaking and maintenance.
Attendees will see practical demonstrations of concepts including the Page Object Pattern, good Locator strategy, dealing with asynchronous actions, and writing custom APIs (also called "backing APIs") to help facilitate better testing.
Additionally, we'll discuss why it's so important to team testers up with software developers in order to get the best out of testable systems.
Examples will be in C#, but Ruby and Java will also be discussed—or any other platforms the attendees ask about.
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Experience Report: Changing Testing Culture in a Ginormous Company
45 Mins
Talk
Beginner
How do you change culture, mindset, and skills in a global organization entrenched in practices that were outdated 20 years ago?
One small, frustrating step at a time.
In this talk I'll share my experiences working at a Fortune 10 company where I helped small teams of testers on three different continents dramatically change how they helped their projects deliver value to the company. I'll talk about dealing with people (NOT RESOURCES!), helping teams improve their technical skills, getting non-technical testers comfortable with writing automation code, navigating ways through corporate bureaucracy and fifedoms, and most importantly how to get advocates at levels that can actually help you with change.
This talk will be full of abject failures we suffered, but also highlight some of the amazing changes we saw over a three year period.
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/jimholmes/changing-testing-culture-in-a-ginormous-organization
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