Future of QA Panel Discussion & React Mobile Testing with Detox by TJ Maher

Our June event, in person in the Sydney CBD and in collaboration with Planit, is gonna be amazing!

We have a Panel Discussion and Q&A on the future of QA and Testing, covering such areas as Shift Left, AI and more and including the chance for attendees to ask questions directly! We already have two great panellists - Ranjith Murthy, and Manoj Kumar, and will announce two more shortly.

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Panel Discussion and Q&A: Panel Discussion: Software Testing and QA in a Rapidly Changing World

Panellists:

Ranjith Murthy - QA and V&V Manager at Droneshield, former Test Manager at Reserve Bank of Australia
Manoj Kumar - Director of NextGen solutions at Planit and famous for his conference talks and work as part of the team at the Selenium project
Others TBC
Chair - Paul Maxwell-Walters, events lead at Sydney Testers
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Also, T.J. Maher, the former organiser at Ministry of Testing Boston and a well known QA expert, blogger and speaker, will be presenting from the US on using the Detox framework to create effective test automation frameworks for React Native applications. More below!

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Building a React Mobile Automated Test Framework using Detox + TypeScript by T.J. Maher

Writing automated tests for a React Native mobile application is notoriously difficult. Mobile components display on the page, but are not fully loaded. Lengthy animations and slow-loading components take a while to finish. Timing issues cause your automated tests to error out giving the appearance of flaky tests.

T.J. Maher will be sharing his experience tackling these problems using the open-source mobile testing framework, Wix's Detox, designed specifically for testing React Native applications.

* Setting up a mobile test automation framework.
* Vibe-coding a toy React Mobile Login page app to test against ( tinyurl.com/detox-demo ).
* How to reduce timing issues and flakiness in automated tests.
* Refactoring code into tests, page objects & base pages, separating out credentials and message strings for easier maintainability.
* Setting up automated tests in CI / CD for iOS simulators and Android emulators with GitHub Action Workflows.
* How developers can test their code before they push it into the main branch.

About T. J. Maher:

A former organizer of the now defunct Ministry of Testing - Boston, Thomas (T.J.) Maher is a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) based in the Boston/South Shore area of Massachusetts, with a decade of experience building web + mobile test automation frameworks. His recent work includes architecting a mobile automation framework from the ground up using Detox and TypeScript for a React Native application at SELF ID, a decentralized identity startup. Prior roles include MassMutual, Verily (Google Health), Threat Stack, Fitbit, and Intralinks. T.J. Maher is @tjmaher1 on LinkedIn, Twitter and BlueSky. His software testing blog is tjmaher.com. Follow him on LinkedIn!

Slide Deck is at https://tinyurl.con/detox-demo-sydney

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We will also have our usual Open Mic for job seekers and all the opportunities for networking and fun typical of our events. Come along, not to be missed!