Boston JS Meetup - November 2024

Hey Boston.JS! We are BACK and hosting our next event on November 7th at Flexcar in Seaport. We have a great event with speakers, and information is coming soon. Please RSVP and let us know if you will attend, and we will update you as we go.

Brian & Sam

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Agenda
5:30 - 6:30 pm - Socialization, drinks, food
6:30 - 7:15 pm - Michael Durrant - Playwright
7:15 - 7:30 pm - Break
7:30 - 8:00 pm - Katey Watson - Temporal + TypeScript
8:00 - 8:30 pm - Nick Kaffine - Testing with Jest
8:30pm - ?? Socialize & wrap up

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Michael Durrant - Playwright
Fast feedback for rapid development has taken a step forward in the last five years as a number of new browser testing frameworks have arisen that run browser tests in seconds instead of minutes, are made to be part of CI processes, and are much easier to use and develop with than Selenium. They let you have the fast feedback for safe development that we all want in our Agile development pipelines, and they also bring a renewed focus on accessibility.

In this presentation, Michael will introduce the latest contender for browser testing - Playwright. After using Cypress for the past three years, Michael started using Playwright this year, and it's a great tool. It is Microsoft's entry into the browser testing space and, as with GitHub, they seem to have devoted considerable resources to it. I will show how to install, develop, and run tests in Playwright so you can see how easy it is to get going with faster feedback and how to write tests that bring a new focus to accessibility approaches in testing.

Michael is a test automation advocate who believes that better testing enables faster application development by providing feedback while the product is being built, as opposed to traditional verification testing at the end of the process.

Michael has worked with a number of technology stacks, languages, and frameworks over the past twenty years. Over the past five years, he has worked extensively with Cypress and Playwright and is enthusiastic about sharing with others the capabilities that these new testing frameworks bring and how using these tools can dramatically speed up the application development process.

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Katey Watson - Temporal + TypeScript
Discover how you can use Temporal and TypeScript to make complex workflows more observable, resilient, and repeatable!

Katey Watson is a senior software engineer at Abridge. She works on audio processing pipelines and leveraging AI to help doctors spend more time with their families. She loves working in healthcare and was previously at Amazon Pharmacy.

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Nick Kaffine - Testing with Jest

Testing using jest, writing readable tests, and designing apps to be highly testable.

Nick Kaffine is Head of Mobile Engineering at Flexcar, leading the mobile feature development team on major projects and system architecture. A Northeastern graduate, Nick is passionate about leveraging tech innovation to drive entrepreneurial ventures.