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Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Virtualization and Containers for Automating Web Testing

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Vagrant and Docker are automation tools that are becoming increasingly popular in the DevOps world. Vagrant provides a simple, consistent interface to create virtual machines on your local system and in the cloud. Docker lets you control containers—like virtual machines, but smaller and faster with less overhead. These tools can provide on-demand, disposable test environments that are delivered quickly, in a known state, locally or in the cloud. Systems under test, test tools, infrastructure, and even pre-populated test data are all candidates for virtualization and containers. When required, the tools can tear down the environment and recreate it within minutes or even faster. And since the process is automated, anyone on the team can use the same commands to get his own virtual environment for testing.

Gene Gotimer shows you how to get started with Vagrant and Docker, how to build virtual machines and containers with your own software for testing, and how to use Vagrant and Docker for your test tools as well as the systems under test. Learn how to install the tools and use them in testing scenarios. See how this enables testers and developers to spend less time deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting software—leaving more time to test.

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Coveros, Inc.

Gene Gotimer is a senior architect at Coveros, Inc., a software company that uses agile methods to accelerate the delivery of secure, reliable software. As a consultant, Gene works with his customers build software better, faster, and more securely by introducing agile development and DevOps practices. He has many years of experience in web-based enterprise application design, and extensive experience establishing and using development ecosystems such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps, secure software development, source code control, build management, release management, issue tracking, project planning and tracking, and a variety of software assurance tools and supporting processes. Gene feels strongly the repeatability, quality, and security are all strongly intertwined; each of them is dependent on the other two, which just makes DevOps that much more crucial to software development.