Automated UI testing for web applications

Automated testing has been a de-facto standard in many aspects of software development for several years now, however automated UI testing for web applications is a pretty new field, and is considered uncharted territory for many developers.

In this meetup we will outline the concept and importance of Automated UI Testing, talk about best practices, and user stories.

Talk 1 by Oren Farhi from Tikal:UI testing.

(45 minutes)
A technical walk through common modern UI testing techniques and frameworks, the differences between the various frameworks and best practices.

Talk 2 by Ran Mizrahi: Intro To JavaScript Unit Testing
(45 minutes)
This days, web applications became a main part of most developers life and larger code bases are written in JavaScript which makes unit testing essential.In this session I’ll introduce JavaScript testing and discuss the basics of JavaScript unit testing.
We’ll cover the following aspects:

-Why test your code?
-Intro to TDD/BDD.
-The challenges in writing JavaScript unit tests.
-Testing JavaScript using Mocha and Chai.
Talk 3 by Oren Rubin from Testim: Automated End-To-End Testing with Selenium. (45 minutes)
A drill down into maybe the most popular framework for automated web testing - Selenium. We will also discuss the ecosystem in which the tests are executed and it’s importance in continuous integration and continuous deployment workflows.
See you soon