WWCode Vancouver V-Day Week Special @ PlentyOfFish

Women Who Code and PlentyOfFish are excited to announce our February meetup at "The Aquarium" at PlentyOfFish HQ!

Schedule

• 5:30pm Doors Open
• 6:00pm Directors' Update
• 6:15pm Speakers Start
• ~8:30pm Post-Talk Mingling

Speakers

1. Dorota Paleczek - Sr. QA Automation Engineer, PlentyOfFish

Title: Automation Framework Development for Web Applications

Topic: How can we create reliable, efficient and effective test automation to insure rapid and continuous delivery of high-quality features to our clients? In this talk, I'll discuss the development of "Autoframe", POF's framework for automating functional and layout testing of desktop and responsive web applications using C#, Selenium Web Driver and Specflow.

Discussion Points:
-Main concepts behind Selenium Web Driver
-Benefits of Specflow & Behavioural Driven Development to drive automation
-Approaches to testing across many browsers, devices and languages
-How to reuse tests for different versions of the product
-Integrating tests into the continuous integration and delivery process of the software-Scaling tests for speed

2. Diane Sithoo - Database Administrator, PlentyOfFish

Title: Locking, Blocking, and Transactions: How to Share Toys in the Sandbox

Topic: In a fast-pace, high-volume SQL system, learn the mechanisms we use to control access to data and how queries and updates impact the system. I will go through the basic transaction isolation levels, how they work, and why it's important to know. Learn why NO LOCK <> NO BLOCK, and how to play nicely with all the other kids in the sandbox. We will also talk about how things like replication, mass updates, and simple SELECT statements can cause issues and how to solve for them.

Discussion Points:
-Who am I?
-Database Administrator and Chapter Leader for SQL PASS
-Transaction Isolation Levels-Blocking
-Replication technologies
-Batch processing
-Troubleshooting and Metrics

3. Monica Olinescu - Instructor @ Lighthouse Labs and Ruby on Rails Developer

Title: Three Reasons Elixir is Awesome

Topic:I will talk about my experience working with Elixir and the Phoenix web framework during the past year while building the real-time backend for DesignDrop.

Some Context:

• Elixir is a new programming language that has taken the web development community by storm.

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Canapes + beer/wine will be served prior to our speaking panel. There will be time following speaker presentations to meet the team + mingle.

Warm Regards,

WomenWhoCode Vancouver Leadership Team