STAREAST 2022 - Testing for Developers
Monday, April 25
Unit Testing: What Every Developer and Tester Should Know
Do you want to take your testing skills to the next level? Are you trying to stay relevant on an agile team where testing is shifting to the left on the project timeline? Do you want to help your organization reap the full benefits of testing earlier? Then join Tariq King to explore the fundamentals of unit testing so you can find bugs as soon as they happen and do more thorough, targeted testing during software development. This introductory session is for everyone—of all programming skill levels. Learn how to apply program-based techniques such as testing by looking, automated unit...
Test Design for Fully Automated Build Architecture
Imagine this … as soon as any developed functionality is submitted into the code repository, it is automatically subjected to the appropriate battery of tests and then released straight into production. Setting up the pipeline capable of doing just that is becoming more and more common and something you need to know about. But most organizations hit the same stumbling block—just what IS the appropriate battery of tests? Automated build architectures don't always lend themselves well to the traditional stages of testing. In this hands-on tutorial, Melissa Benua introduces you to key test...
Tuesday, April 26
Testing Strategies for Microservices
Software development is trending toward building systems using small, autonomous, independently deployable services called microservices. Leveraging microservices makes it easier to add and modify system behavior with minimal or no service interruption. Because they facilitate releasing software early, frequently, and continuously, microservices are especially popular in DevOps. But how do microservices affect software testing and testability? Are there new testing challenges that arise from this paradigm? Or are these simply old challenges disguised as new ones? Join Tariq King as he...
How to Get Started with Cypress.io
NewThe web has evolved. Finally, testing has also. Cypress is a modern testing tool that answers the testing needs of modern web applications. It has been gaining a lot of traction in the last couple of years, gaining worldwide popularity. If you have been waiting to learn Cypress, wait no more! Filip Hric will guide you through the first steps on how to start using Cypress and set up a project on your own. The good news is, learning Cypress is incredibly easy. You’ll write your first test in no time, and then you’ll discover how to write a full end-to-end test for a modern web application....
Wednesday, April 27
Cypress Advanced Capabilities Declassified for Efficient Cross-Browser Test Automation
PreviewCypress is the fastest growing test automation framework for cross browser testing and it's open source. It has a ton of benefits for developers and test engineers, but also some very advanced and cool capabilities that by knowing them - practitioners could enhance their productivity and test coverage volume. To name a few - interception and network control, visual testing, cloud executions, plugins are a subset of such abilities that organizations need to be familiar with. In this session, Eran Kinsbruner, DevOps Chief Evangelist and best selling author will walk through the top...
Test Your Unit Tests: Mutation Testing
Even if your code coverage is 80%, how much confidence do you have in your unit tests? Are they catching the edge cases? Can you fearlessly refactor? Add new features? Perhaps you are writing code that another team will rely on (or worse, you have to rely on!) Or maybe you have to untangle some ugly spaghetti code and want some idea of what it does before you start chopping it up. A mutation testing framework like PIT from pitest.org tests your JUnit tests and shows you what you are and aren’t testing. If your unit tests all pass, mutation tests make changes to a copy of your source code...
What's New in Chromium and Other Tools in 2022
It is 2022 and the number of open source frameworks, tools and libraries available is mildly reminiscent of the shovel sellers during the gold rush. With a new tool or framework cropping up almost every other week, it is near impossible to keep up and do meaningful evaluations for your use-cases without losing your sanity. And eventually, FOMO starts to creep in. If this feeling sounds familiar to you, join Kaushal Dalvi in this session as he goes over what is new in 2022 from a web performance perspective and goes over scenarios and situations where some of the shiny new toys can...
Component and Contract Testing: A True Shift Left in Microservices Architectures
Are you struggling to see the true benefit of shift left in your microservices architecture ? Do you ever wish you had some checks in place before developers would check-in their code ? Block having a build until issues/defects are fixed? If so, then the answer is to have component tests followed by contract tests. Join Yesh Veera as he teaches you how to implement and perform component testing. You'll traverse up the classic testing pyramid until you reach above component tests to discover a contract testing framework. If that hearing this excites you then come see for yourself how to...
Thursday, April 28
Best Practices for Testing Your Serverless Applications
This talk is about applying best practices of testing to your serverless applications. Serverless technologies allow you to focus on building your application by reducing the work you do managing infrastructure. You'll learn how to overcome the challenges of testing in a serverless architecture, and how to efficiently test your Lambda functions efficiently. This includes unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing. After this talk, you will gain an understanding of the benefits of using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI to test code manually, and verifying...
Breadmaking and the Art of Data-Driven Model-Based Testing
Are you short on testing resources but not short on things to test? Is your current test case creation effort exclusively like baking artisanal hand-crafted sourdough? Do your tests rely on data? Does your test team understand what that your product’s data looks like and how to use it? Melissa and Chris will show you how solid data models can drive solid data driven testing in your automation. They draw on their years of experience and share how you can generate test cases from your actual data models, run those test cases at scale, and validate - using the power of oracles - to ensure...
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Improve Test Maintenance and Coverage with Data-Driven Testing
Imagine this... You are an automation engineer and you are tasked to automate a workflow in an application that has multiple entry points for different inputs. What is the most efficient way you could ensure that you have all the test coverage that is needed per permutation and that you will be able to easily manage the test data? We know that maintaining test data for automation can be tedious and creating different test cases using different types of test data can be time-consuming. These issues can be solved by separating test data from test scripts. Whether you're a beginner or senior...
Tri-Layer Testing Architecture
Designing a proper architecture for building your test automation solution is one of the most important knowledge and experience a Test Automation Engineer may possess. The Tri-Layer Testing Architecture gives a good overview on how to design test solutions easily and quickly. About a decade ago people with advanced knowledge were building test automation frameworks with essentially two separate layers: Test Scripts and Test Libraries. The problem with this Bi-Layer architecture is reusability in other applications, specifically the size and complexity of test libraries along with the...
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How to Manage Multiple Test Environments in a Hyperconnected Cloud World
The advent of the cloud came to give us testing superpowers: one properly configured Kubernetes file and one can easily spin up a bunch of Docker containers that faithfully represent the production environment. However, with ease of use comes abuse, and the proliferation of test environments is beginning to be a real headache to many organizations, both in terms of management and cost. Abraham has suffered this first hand, and from his experience at the trenches a number of strategies have materialized: universal feature flags, meta-automation, and test environment rationalization. These...