Max Saperstone, VP Testing Solutions, TestPros

Topic Abstract

Tools like Cucumber and Fitnesse have been popularizing the ‘idea’ of using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for test automation for over a decade. While there are many benefits to using these tools, adoption of BDD practices and principles can add a lot more value than the tooling alone. BDD isn’t about testing; it’s about design, and team collaboration.

Max will review the main tenets of BDD, and dive into some ideas of implementing this process. He’ll cover the benefits of doing true BDD: how it can be used to increase product quality and reduce feature churn. He will also discuss some of the pitfalls of avoiding BDD, but still using the tools. He’ll talk about some ‘best practices’, and get into some dos and don’ts for writing feature files. Some tooling will be discussed, along with some tips on how to automate, and what to avoid.

Craig Risi, QA Architect, Allan Gray

Topic Abstract

Steps to getting the automation you need to make your Agile/DevOps testing strategy work.

In this presentation I will showcase ideas and a proven framework on how you can take any team or product and work to achieving a testing framework and approach that allows for automation across every required frontend and backend layer, unit and end-to-end test in a way that can be completed within a sprint with as minimal tech debt and left backlog as possible. Often teams focus too much on different tools and automation frameworks to help them achieve this rather than looking holistically at “how” they are building their software and whether it is appropriately testable, addressing a team culture that enables quality ownership throughout and empowering your testers to operate at all levels across the stack so that they can test earlier and more effectively.

Learning Outcomes:
A set of ideas that can be taken back to teams that can help drive better software design, a more collaborative culture and the appropriate level of testing and automation at all levels.

Ram Shanmugam, CEO, AUTONOMIQ

Topic Abstract

The digital enterprise landscape is going through a massive transformation from on-premise to hybrid SaaS applications. As more and more non-technical business and functional users leverage SaaS platform services and readily available automation to bring their application ideas to life, they are seeking a similar automation experience for their continuous testing needs; leading to the rise of the Citizen Tester. In this discussion we will share our perspectives on the capabilities needed for the citizen tester to be successful

Mandy Chessell, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Topic Abstract

Modern regulations put an extra burden both on the way that developers build code and on operations. These regulations are not static and they drive constant maintenance in application, DevOps pipelines, infrastructure and operations. Using the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as example, Mandy will illustrate how open metadata can be used to maintain effective agile development and devOps practices in a regulated environment.

Mike Talks, Test Manager

Topic Abstract

If you have an automation suite, chances are your team is looking at it regularly, and seeing a lot of green ticks each time you come in.

But what happens when you start to see red? How easy is it to dig into the problems that lie beneath?

In this session, Mike Talks will take a look through some examples to explore how to avoid some basic mistakes, and how to make your tests more readable and analytical.

Mustapha Garba, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Mansi Patel, Program Manager, Microsoft

Topic Abstract

With the current situation of the world, we are all adjusting to a new way of working. Remote connectivity and video-conferencing has become the main stay of all our professional interactions. Many of us are on the Digital Transformation journey. One of the key areas where transformation and modernization can help is in validation and testing. This session focuses on how Microsoft can enable you to perform testing of your applications from anywhere! Leveraging the power of Azure cloud, Update Staging Lab is a service that allows independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprise customers to accelerate application validation against platform changes such as Windows updates. In this session, find out how you can lower testing time and cost by simplifying deployment and leveraging automated workflows. In addition, we also offer world-class intelligence about the apps you provide us (e.g. performance data, API impact analysis, etc.). If that wasn’t intriguing enough, you can find out about our future plans to integrate Robotic Process Automation (RPA) validation which enables AI driven bots to exercise app functionality to find issues earlier!

Rahul Verma, Founder & Chief Consultant, Test Mile

Topic Abstract

Arjuna is a Python based test automation framework developed by Rahul Verma. It is an open source, Apache Licensed software. Rahul has implemented smaller variants of features in Arjuna across frameworks and organizations, or given advice around it. However Arjuna being a generic library has the most complete implementation of his ideas, away from project specific contexts and constraints.

Arjuna currently supports Web UI and HTTP automation. It encapsulates selenium, requests, pytest and many of its plugins along with file readers, XML/JSON parsers and so on. It uses Python's advanced coding constructs to provide a very flexible and intuitive Tester Programming Interface (TPI).

This presentation introduces some of the salient features of Arjuna for test automation engineers.