Test Data: Because Your Tests Need to Eat Too

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Agenda:

6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: Food and Networking
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: Presentation
8:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.: Mingling and Departure

Presentation:

As most testers know, data management is important to testing. For automated testing, this importance increases significantly. Testers need the correct data in the system in order to elicit the desired response. While manual testers can make adjustments on the fly to the system under test, automated tests are much pickier. If the system isn’t in a completely set and known state, the outcome of some actions might be the correct one, but interpreted by the automated scripts as the wrong one. Max Saperstone will discuss several different tactics used in real world scenarios that were effective in managing test data. These include: preparing systems for testing, designing tests to be idempotent, and data management techniques to allow multiple tests to run in parallel without conflict. He will cover the Arrange Act Assert pattern, and how that can be used for more effective tests, along with different ways to seed and manage test data.

Presenter:

Max Saperstone has been working as a Software and Automation Engineer for almost twenty years. He is currently designing cool prototypes and building automated tools for the government as a DevOps SME at Steampunk. Max’s focus is on Test Automation and Continuous Testing, with the goal of having organizations understand their applications' quality as rapidly as possible. He specializes in open-source tools, including Selenium, Postman, JMeter, Cucumber, and Docker. He has released several open-source testing frameworks in the past and is currently working on a new one to make automated testing within Salesforce easier. Max can often be found speaking at Meetups and conferences about testing, hanging around local brewpubs, or off lost in the woods enjoying nature.