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The CTRL Pad have moved to their new venue across the atrium.
This month, we have speakers from London and Newcastle:
|| Callum Akehurst-Ryan & Elizabeth Fiennes
|| Testing Progressive Web Apps – How to achieve api-ness
First proposed by Google in 2015, Progressive web apps (PWAs) are now in the infant stage of their development. As with any child, people are curious about which developmental direction the technology will take.
A couple of years ago, we entered a programme of work that intended to produce multiple PWAs for the financial industry. Never having worked with them before, we did a lot of research and asked industry colleagues for help in understanding the tech. However, there was little-to-no help forthcoming on how to test for this type of app as the tech was so new. This meant we had to come up with our own!
Drawing on comparable experience, trial, error (lots of error) and some tools, we formulated a series of heuristics, automation methods and processes for testing which we are here to share. As a part of the talk, we will pull apart the layers of a PWA and define what they are. This will draw out how this approach impacts the testing that needs to be done to prove the functionality of an app of this type.
|| Colin Ferguson
|| Smashing Barriers to Digital and Tech Careers
This talk will explore how The Altitude Foundation, a brand-new tech-focused charity based in the North East, will unlock young people's potential to excel in their careers. Colin will outline the charity's vision, its work in the pilot year, and its ambitions for the future.
