Bug#02 Test Talks Wales: XMAS PARTY

Welcome to the Test Talks Wales Xmas Party! This will follow the same format of the Summer Social, with a roundup of all the things Testing that have been exciting us this year.

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

Please note that this is a joint talk with Cardiff Tech Talks:

https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-Tech-Talk/events/266491965/

Here's a rough guide to what we'll be blathering on about:

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6pm: Arrive, pizza, beer, mince pies.

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
> Mapping user flows for Exploratory Testing the Evil Tester way
> Copyfish and other awesome Chrome extensions
> Responsive Design testing with Galen

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7pm: What to look forward to in 2020:

> RIP DevOps, the relentless rise of NoOps
> 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 crowdsourced humans

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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!