Testival Meetup #28

Regular talks (10-30 minutes)

We are no longer looking for regular talks for meetup #28. We are looking for regular talks for meetup #29. Apply at zeljko.filipin at gmail.com or at the meetup.

#1 Dario Đurić, Altima d.o.o.: Testing Web Components (18:15-18:45)

Web components are a set of features currently being standardized by W3C that will allow creation of custom elements and tags on HTML pages. Most of the web component features are already supported in all major browsers, and libraries such as Google's Polymer make working with web components a lot easier, by providing helper utilities and polyfills for features that are not yet supported. This talk will focus on Polymer, specifically the testing aspect of it and how it helps testing web components.

Dario has over 9 years experience in backend and frontend development. He is currently working at Altima d.o.o. where he is mainly engaged in Java development, with occasional drifts to AngularJS.

#2 Marko Elezović, Head of Technology at Oradian Ltd.: Concurrent integration testing (18:50-19:20)

As test suites grow larger, having only a couple CPUs invested in getting the job done gets old pretty fast. But, synchronizing cross-process and cross-database testing is not something that’s readily available in most testing frameworks. This talk will showcase a way to enabled parallelism in integration testing, distributing the workload across databases and multiple JVMs running Scala (think Java). A method to provision JIT PostgreSQL clusters will be demonstrated, along with process synchronization on top of the SBT build system.

Marko has exactly 15 years of experience in software development. He is working in Oradian d.o.o. as Head of Technology, building a core banking SaaS for financial inclusion.

#3 Marko Varat, Repsly Inc: UX Testing - Product Development Sanity Check (19:25-19:55)

Product design and development is an exciting journey full of trials and errors. As on every journey, there is a great possibility of the wrong turn which results in a drop of engagement or even churns. This is why UX testing or sanity check is a necessary part of the product development process. This talk will focus on product development process, its challenges and pitfalls. We will present some examples where sanity check helped us save additional development effort - read time and money.

Marko has over 15 years of experience in user interface design and front-end development. He is currently working at Repsly Inc. as a user experience designer engaged in product design process as well as user onboarding process optimisation.

Lightning talks (5 minutes) (20:00-20:20)

We are looking for lightning talks. Apply at zeljko.filipin at gmail.com or at the meetup.

#1 Krešimir Linke (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kresimirlinke), Quality Assurance Manager at Repsly Inc: How we hired a senior tester in the time when everybody else is hiring too.

#2 Željko Filipin (http://filipin.eu/), Freelance software engineer: Selenium bindings in Scratch (http://filipin.eu/selenium-scratch), visual programming language for kids.

#3 Zoran Majstorović, ButterflyMX: Ruby Testing Tools (RSpec and Capybara) @ButterflyMX.

Sponsor

Repsly Inc (https://www.repsly.com/) is sponsoring food and drinks at the meetup.

Repsly is a mobile data collection and field management tool that has been focused on providing mobile software solutions for enhancing field activity management since its inception in 2010. Setting out to simplify processes for field teams and their managers, Repsly has customers in over 50+ countries.

After the meetup

We will continue the conversation at a nearby pub Pločnik (https://www.facebook.com/plocnikzg/), Međimurska ulica 21.