OctoberTest with Gleb, Kristin, and Anand (Hosted by LinkSquares)

UPDATED: Now with catering and featured beers confirmed!

Holy guacamole! It's another in person event for Boston web devs. ReactJS Boston, in collaboration with Angular Boston, and Ministry of Testing: Boston is proud to present OctoberTest!

This time we are very thankful to have an awesome new host, LinkSquares, at 60 State Street in Boston. LinkSquares has an awesome office and will be providing food and beverages for this event.

Talk 1 -Test Angular/React/Vue/Svelte Components Without Fear
Abstract: Writing tests for your components (be it Angular, React, Vue, or Svelte components) is often a horror show. You code in (js-dom) darkness, there are dangers behind each action, and the most beautiful tests get banged up beyond recognition when they try to cross into the CI realm. In this talk, Gleb will show how Cypress component testing becomes a ray of hope guiding you towards the testing nirvana. These tests remove the great majority of framework-specific test code, while focusing on how the component behaves on the page. Gleb will use examples from different frameworks to teach everyone how to test the modern front-end code without fear or pain.

Speaker 1 Bio
Gleb Bahmutov is a JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, and software quality fanatic. During the day Gleb is making the engineers more productive at Mercari US in his position as the Senior Director of Engineering. At night he is fighting software bugs and blogs about it at https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/. You can follow him and his work @bahmutov and find the slides from conference presentations at https://slides.com/bahmutov. Gleb is a GitHub Star, Algolia Ambassador, CircleCI Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, and ex-Cypress Distinguished Engineer.

Talk 2 - Get Organized for Postman Testing Success
Abstract: We all know that Postman is a valuable tool for API testing, but it becomes even more valuable when your tests are well-organized! In this presentation, Kristin will share best practices for Postman requests, assertions, environments, variables, folders, collections, and workspaces that make your API tests easy to navigate and reuse. She'll go on to describe four organizational patterns for Postman collections that can be used for varying application types.

Speaker 2 Bio
Kristin Jackvony is the author of the new book The Complete Software Tester. She is a Principal Test Engineer at Paylocity. She has a highly popular LinkedIn Learning course called Postman Essential Training, and she blogs regularly at Think Like a Tester.

Talk 3 - The best test automation framework is ...
Abstract: Starting to implement Test Automation for any project can be a daunting task. There are many factors to consider, and unfortunately, many times we get biased by the 'popular opinion' or 'best-shiny-new-too' related discussions. While some of these discussions are quite helpful, in many cases, just following someone's suggestions blindly can lead to failures.

In this session, I will share the approach I take when I start to implement Test Automation for any project. We will discuss the negotiable and the non-negotiable criteria for any test automation framework and more importantly, what factors should you consider to make the right choice, and make it our best choice!
Key takeaways:

• Learn what are the best practices and tools for Test Automation
• Classify & differentiate between the non-negotiable & negotiable criteria expected from your Test Automation Framework
• Identify factors to consider in your context to make the right choice

Speaker 3 Bio
Anand is a Software Quality Evangelist with 20+ years in the software testing field. He is passionate about shipping a quality product, and specializes in Product Quality strategy & execution, and also building automated testing tools, infrastructure and frameworks. Anand writes testing related blogs and has built open-source tools related to Software Testing – WAAT (Web Analytics Automation Testing Framework), TaaS (for automating the integration testing in disparate systems) and TTA (Test Trend Analyzer). You can follow him and his work @BagmarAnand or visit essenceoftesting.com

The OctoberTest menu has been locked in!!!

Beer-cooked Bratwurst (Plant based bratwurst style sausage also available)
Pretzels with Beer-Cheese dip and Mustards (Yellow, Whole Grain, & Honey Mustard)
Potato Skins "Reuben" style (corned beef, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing)
Gurkensalat (German cucumber salad)
Radi (salted radish salad)

Featuring OctoberTest beers from local brewers Tributary Brewing and Berkshire Brewing