Twin Cities Test Automation Group

Dustin Luhmann presents
Automation Appraisal and Roadmap Preparation

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Methods for Scraping Tagged Documents - by Thomas Brown

Online meeting, the zoom link available an hour before the meeting start time, to registered members

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Reading Between The Lines- Correcting ATDD Myths and Traps in Automation by Jason Edstrom

Session Takeaways
Defining ATDD and what value it can potentially add to your team.
Reduce some of the maintenance headaches by aligning tools across your team.
Identifying automation warning signs in ATDD and implementing corrections.
Managing the expectations of the value that ATDD can provide a team.

Topic

Using Robot Framework for Web and Mobile applications by Thomas Brown

Origins and Capabilities of Robot Framework (support of Selenium
Webdriver and Appium Mobile driver in my examples)
Structure of Robot scripts
How to create scripts: what editor to use and advisable plugins
External Library support
Keyword driven examples including Given/When/Then structure
Connection to browser (demo)
Connection to Appium (demo)
Writing custom (Python) libraries

Pizza Sponsored by Magenic

Troy Walsh presents - How test automation can help you build an unbreakable release pipeline

Pizza provided by Magenic
Presentation starts at 6:00 pm

Building Test Automation for AWS Lambda Serverless Computing Platform

AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of the Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code.

During this discussion we will look at building test automation for AWS Lambda Functions. We will explore testing Lambda Functions locally and inside the AWS environment on a deployed Lambda Function. We will look at testing standard Lambda Functions and HTTPS endpoints.

Session Takeaways:

• Overview of AWS Lambda serverless computing platform
• Building Regression Tests for Lambda functions

Bio:

Chris wrote his first software in college targeting the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 microprocessors. As a Software Engineer he has engineered software using C/C and Java targeting the Windows and Unix platforms.

Today Chris is working as a consultant for Sogeti USA building Test Automation Solutions.

Social and Pizza at 6:15 pm

Presentation starts at 6:30 pm

Presentation Abstract:
“When will the tests be green?” Have you heard that question? I submit that, until we fix all the bugs, they never will be! Project leaders look to the test results to know if we can release. They want to see “Green” on the status board. Green means all tests are passing. Will they ever? Experience tells us very few releases are delivered completely bug free. When designing metrics we need to take care that we do not encourage bad behavior. Pushing for “Green” test results can result in bad behavior: The removal of failing tests or (worse yet) the modification of tests to pass with known defects in the software, all in an effort to report “Green”. This presentation suggests a new way to manage results, and expectations, so that your tests are true to the quality of the product.

About the Presenter:
Bill Roske is a Principal Consultant and Quality Architect at Magenic. Areas of expertise include software quality strategy, Agile development and testing, software test automation, and testing infrastructures. At Magenic, Bill focuses on delivering Quality Assurance approaches for clients, as well as developing re-usable solutions for Quality Assurance and Automated Testing. With over 30 years of software industry experience, predominantly in quality engineering and testing, Bill is a visionary and creative problem solver. Bill is a proud father and grandfather. He is also a certified master mechanic and enjoys auto repair on the weekends.