UI Testing is Ruff; Hound Is Your Best Friend
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Whatever you call it, UI testing/End-to-End Testing/End-to-User Testing/Acceptance Testing, it is often an intensely manual and time-consuming process. Hound is a library for browser automation and writing integration tests in Elixir. Browser automation means automating those repetitive user actions — clicks, fill inputs, file uploads, selecting options, radio buttons, etc. Today I will provide an overview of Hound and it’s helpers, as well as an example of how Hound tests saved me days of manual end-user testing.
Speaker Bio:
Vanessa Lee is a software engineer at Interline Vacations. She’s been developing s/w since the 90s. She began working in the Erlang Ecosystem in 2011.
Food & Drinks:
Rabbet is sponsoring pizza and soft-drinks. Make sure to include your preference when RSVPing.
Location:
Go to Capital Factory's 1st floor front desk (the big room with the robot head across from the hotel bar) and ask for the Austin Elixir meetup room (usually Wall-E or Jonny-Five on the first floor) and they'll point you in the right direction. You might want to stop by the front desk to get to the parking validation ticket before the meetup too.
Parking:
Capital Factory has validated parking: when you go to the 1st or 16th floor ask the front desk for a parking voucher. The parking voucher will let you park for 50% off from 5pm-10pm (so ~$15 instead of ~$30) in the Omni Hotel garage under Capital Factory. To get into the garage turn north on Brazos from 7th Street. The garage entrance is the first downward ramp on the right at 733 Brazos (Street view https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2689199,-97.740976,3a,75y,88.67h,84.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6eYOcptw_oovfL-UUMEM1Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 ) . There is cheaper lot parking at 406 E 7th Street (https://goo.gl/maps/LseRL3TGKC32)