2nd Anniversary- May Meetup: "Knowing your Automation”

The May Meetup mark the second anniversary of the Ministry of Testing Cork, so we have a very special guest speaker delivering a talk on Automation, the usual pizza, chats and a test talk.

Hugh McCamphill from the Belfast Selenium Meetup will deliver a talk “Knowing your Automation”.

About Hugh:

Hugh is a Lead Test Engineer with ShopKeep in Belfast.
While experienced in many different areas of testing, He has a deep specialism in writing test automation (since 2004), and been using Selenium since 2011.
He organises the Belfast Selenium Meetup and had spoken atTesting Conferences such as SeConf 2018 and Nordic Testing days 2017.

Talk Abstract:

Joel Spolsky famously wrote in 2002 that “All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.”

This of course doesn’t mean that abstractions are bad – in fact we wouldn’t be able to do anything non-trivial without them – but instead that we need to understand the underlying mechanism to be able to use the higher level concept.

Over the years I’ve created many frameworks and abstractions for UI test automation, for both coders and non-coders alike. Looking back, were these good or useful abstractions? How leaky were they and what were the consequences for users of these abstractions?

If you’re just starting out on your automation journey, how would having this knowledge affect how you write tests and what those tests look like? What about if you are using APIs like Selenium, or frameworks that have been created on top of Selenium? What leakiness exists, and how much do you need to know, regardless of the abstraction in place?

Join me as I take you through some lessons learnt, patterns and approaches that have personally been successful, and some observations on current trends in relation to abstractions and knowing your automation.

Agenda

6:30-6:45 Pizza and chat
Pizza will be served before the talk and there will be an opportunity to meet other testers in the cork community.

6:45-7:45
Hugh will deliver his talk and take questions

7:45-8:50
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