REMOTE BBC Tech Meetup – Testing, Automation & BDD

January's BBC Tech Meetup is all about Testing, Automation and Behaviour Driven Development. Join us on 26th January, from 6pm.

Speakers:

# Postman for API Testing - Christy Solomon

Hi, I am Christy Solomon a Software Tester with experience of testing web applications, Desktop application, Mobile applications, API’s and so on. I love to learn any new testing tool that comes to the market and try to implement in the projects that I am working on.

Postman is a tool used for testing the REST API. In this session I would like to cover the following :
How to build the framework and the test cases using javascript?
How to integrate postman to a CI/CD tool?

# To BDD or Not to BDD - Petros Plakogiannis

Behavior-driven development attempts to solve the problem of implementing poorly defined requirements. Our client is in the chemical industry. Hence, it was quite difficult for my team to adapt quickly to the corresponding business. To be more precise, in order to build the product, we needed to understand mathematical models, equations and the glossary of chemical terms. BDD was the solution. The management team heard the magic buzzword “BDD” and hoped that it would solve our challenges. However, nobody was following the principles of BDD and BDD became just another “automation tool”. Business users continued to send documents and emails with the requirements, Developers never used the BDD approach, the Analysis team did not follow the patterns to write correct Gherkin syntax as prescribed by the BDD creators etc. The result for the project was just a big mess. In order to address the problems, we had some mini training sessions for all our team regarding the correct principles of BDD. We also trained customers with webinars and showed them how they could write Gherkin files. Also, we have introduced the pre-flight checks concept. Hence, my proposal is this: Do you want to use BDD? Use it as intended or it will just create more complexity.

# Taiko - Reliable Browser Automation - Amit Sarkar

There is a lot of talk in the software industry today about browser automation tools like Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriver, TestCafe, and TestProject. Yet nobody seems to be talking about Taiko, an automation tool from Thoughtworks, the company that created Selenium and WebDriver. In this talk I will take you through some of the key features of Taiko, how different websites, on Chromium-based browsers, can be automated using it and why I feel you should consider this simple yet powerful tool.
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