South Wales Test - Christmas Party!

Welcome to the South Wales Test Christmas Party! This will follow the same format as the Summer Social, with Simon Stratton, CEO of Safebear**, giving a roundup of all the things concerning Testing that have been exciting us this year.

Plus, he'll also be covering what to look forward to next year.

Please note that this is a joint talk with Test Talk Wales:

https://www.meetup.com/Test-talks-wales/events/266385141/

Here's a rough guide to what will be covered:

6pm: Arrival. Pizza, beer & mince pies will be served!

6:15pm: "2019: A Retrospective"

• The Cucumber and Smartbear merger
• AI appearing in Test Automation Tools - meh.
• AI appearing in Reporting - yey!
• The first free Cloud Automation Framework.
• Visual API testing
• Web 3.0 - should we care?
• TestContainers
• Documentation is sexy again? (edit: was it ever sexy?)
• Defectless Testing - RIP Jira tickets?
• RPA goes Open Source

7pm: "What To Look Forward To In 2020"

• Selenium 4.0
• Appium 2.0
• Incredible Serverless technologies
• More adoption of Shift-Right Testing methodologies
• Code Instrumentation///RUM///Synthetic User Monitoring///Dark Launching///Blue/Green Deploy///Alpha/Beta///A/B Testing///Mediation Deployment (Does anyone know what this is? Apparently it's big...)///Injecting Chaos///Dogfooding///Feature Flags
• To ShadowDOM or not to ShadowDOM?
• WebAssembly and Rusty frontends
• Property-based Testing
  > AI Testing with crowd-sourced humans

8pm: Santa (only kidding!)

And anything else that has caught our eye recently - please do also suggest any news, topics or tools you've noticed and would like discussed, by adding a note in the comments below. It's been a busy year for Testing!

Oh, and Happy Christmas!

**P.S. Simon Stratton has very generously offered 50% off any of his Safebear training courses, covering Selenium, BDD, Cucumber, JMeter, Blockchain, API testing and much more! Just enter the discount code ‘YOLK50A’ when booking! There’s 2 upcoming courses in Cardiff this January taking you from Manual to Automation Tester in just 4 days. See the full details at https://safebear.co.uk/