Test Data - Food for your Test Automation Framework

Slides from my talk in Agile India 2015, Discuss Agile 2015 on "Enabling Continuous Delivery (CD) in Enterprises with Testing"

Here are slides from my talk on "What, Why and How of Analytics Testing" at Selenium Conference, Berlin 2017. This talk focusses on Analytics related to Browser & Mobile Native apps, with impact on / of IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data. See my blog for more details - https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/10/analytics-forgotten-child.html

Slides from my talk on how to Eradicate Flaky Tests from AppiumConf 2021 https://confengine.com/conferences/appium-conf-2021/proposal/15581/eradicate-flaky-tests

This document outlines an agenda for a Selenium workshop. It covers topics like getting started with Selenium, implementing page object models and design patterns, handling test data, using assertions, and responsive web design testing. Exercises are provided to demonstrate concepts like building page objects, running tests across browsers, and using test data. The goal is to help students learn Selenium concepts and address common automation challenges.

Agile Methodology is not new. Many organisations / teams have already adopted Agile way of Software Development or are in the enablement journey for the same. What does this mean for Testing? There is no doubt that the Testing approach and mindset also needs to change to be in tune with the Agile Development methodology. Learn what does it mean to Test on Agile Projects. Also, learn how Test Automation approach needs to change for the team to be successful! Also, see the skills and capabilities required to make anyone in the Quality / Testing role add tremendous value to the team!

A session where we learn about the clues to keep in mind to not fall into a maintenance overhead autoamtion

The Test Automation Pyramid is not a new concept. The top of the pyramid is our UI / end-2-end functional tests - which should cover the breadth of the product. What the functional tests cannot capture though, is the aspects of UX validations that can only be seen and in some cases, captured by the human eye. This is where the new buzzwords of AI & ML can truly help. In this session, we will explore why Visual Validation is an important cog in the wheel of Test Automation and also different tools and techniques that can help achieve this. We will also see a demo of Applitools Eyes - and how it can be a good option to close this gap in automation!

It is easy to measure code coverage when running unit tests. However, very frequently the following questions come up: - How can we measure API test coverage and e2e / UI test coverage? - Does e2e / UI test coverage add value? - If not, what other data can we look at to know if the e2e tests have good coverage? This session is about understanding the above questions, and finding solutions for the same.

Creating automated functional tests of your web application with Selenium IDE is quick and easy, but leads to massive duplication in your test scripts. See why this duplication is a problem, and how to address it using a simple design pattern called the Page Object.

Presentation for Web Performance Barcelona 26/01/2017 https://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-Web-Performance/events/235926791/ Sitespeed.io is a set of Open Source tools that helps make your web pages faster. During this meetup Philippe we will present : • sitespeed.io functionalities • PROs & CONs • Feedback after 2 months of tests • Demo • Installation • Configuration • Use

Behavior Driven Testing (BDT) is an evolved way of thinking about Testing. It helps in identifying the 'correct' scenarios, in form of user journeys, to build a good and effective (manual & automation) regression suite that validates the Business Goals.

This document provides an overview of Cucumber, a behavior-driven development framework. It discusses what BDD is, the benefits it provides like usability, fewer defects, and living documentation. Popular BDD tools like Cucumber, Jasmine and JBehave are mentioned. Cucumber is introduced in more detail, explaining how it executes scenarios using a Given, When, Then format and supports multiple programming languages. Hands-on examples demonstrate features like data and table-driven execution, background, hooks, tags and reports. Suggested additional reading materials on BDD and Cucumber are also provided.

https://confengine.com/agile-india-2020/proposal/11065/visual-validation-the-missing-tip-of-the-automation-pyramid The top of the pyramid is our UI / end-2-end functional tests - which simulate end-user behavior and interactions with the product-under test. While Automation helps validate functionality of your product, aspects of UX validations can only be seen and captured by the human eye and is hence mostly a manual activity. This is an area where AI & ML can truly help. With everyone wanting to be Agile, make quick releases, the look & feel / UX validation, which is a slow, and error-prone activity, quickly becomes a huge bottleneck. In addition, with any UX related issues propping up cause huge brand-value and revenue loss, may lead to social-trolling and worse - dilute your user-base. In this session, using numerous examples, we will explore: Why Automated Visual Validation is essential to be part of your Test Strategy Potential solutions / options for Automated Visual Testing, with pros & cons of each How an AI-powered tool, Applitools Eyes, can solve this problem.

I presented "What is WAAT" in "vodQA - Chennai" conference in Jan 2012. This is the slide deck I used. I walked through what is web analytics, and then how WAAT can be used to automate the testing of the web analytics tags being reported from the client browser.

Slides from the workshop conducted in ThoughtWorks, vodQA Gurgaon on - "What is BDT, and how can you use this technique to identify the 'right' regression suite for your product"

Understand basics of Web services , different tools used in testing web services. Mainly focused on testing REST services.

Workshop on "Getting started with Visual Testing using Applitools - @TPC (Test Practitioners Club, NCR), Feb2020"

Slides from my talk in Selenium Conference 2016 about "Sharing the pain with Protractor & Selenium WebDriver" See blog for more information - http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2016/06/sharing-pain-using-protractor.html My blog: http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com

This document discusses principles and practices for test automation. It covers topics like different levels of testing from unit to integration to UI, the importance of testing non-functional requirements, using a test pyramid approach with more unit and component tests than UI tests. It also discusses practices like continuous integration, test automation framework design considerations, sample framework architectures, and page object patterns. The overall goal is to provide guidance on building quality into software through effective test automation practices.

This document discusses test automation in agile projects. It begins with an overview of agile principles like the agile manifesto. It then discusses agile testing principles and practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery. The bulk of the document focuses on test automation, including why it's important, different types of test automation frameworks, and design considerations like the test automation pyramid. It provides tips for test automation including design patterns, abstraction layers, and evolving the framework over time.

My keynote talk delivered in vodQA Pune, Innovations in Testing, on Sat, 6th June 2015, at ThoughtWorks, Pune. Video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJcaUZYGDic

Distributed organisation / projects / teams is not a new phenomenon. It is a reality. However, do we really work well in Testing on such distributed teams? Learn some practices that help bridge the Distributed Testing gap!

This presentation focuses on implementing Page Objects Model using Protractor for AngularJS apps for more maintainable, reusable and flexible end-to-end testing for your project. The presentations was done at 99X Technology as a Tech Talk session done by Team Finale.

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 that 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.

Bhumika S, Anand Bagmar (Thoughtworks) 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 we, as QA’s, can identify which tests can be classified as unit tests, integration tests, and functional tests. 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.

The document discusses best practices, tips, performance, and debugging strategies for Protractor, an end-to-end testing framework for AngularJS applications. It addresses common problems like unknown window sizes, fragile tests due to small HTML changes, and long test run times. Solutions include setting the window size before tests, using page objects to abstract the HTML, enabling sharding to run tests in parallel, and integrating with IDEs for debugging. The tips are from Sergey Bolshchikov, a developer advocate and creator of resources for front-end developers.

Agile Methodology is not new. Many organisations / teams have already adopted Agile way of Software Development or are in the enablement journey for the same. What does this mean for Testing? There is no doubt that the Testing approach and mindset also needs to change to be in tune with the Agile Development methodology. Learn what does it mean to Test on Agile Projects.