STARWEST - Conference Speaker: Michael Piciulo

Test Automation QA Technical Mentor

World Wide Technology

Michael serves as a QA Technical Mentor for the Software Consulting Services team at World Wide Technology. His focus involves software consulting for UI test automation, testing strategy, quality advocacy and agile transformation.

Michael has consulted for multiple Fortune 500 companies in his career. He is experienced in test automation creation and execution, implementing test automation into continuous delivery and implementing test maintenance strategies. Michael has created large test suites that incorporate multiple user personas and multiple test environments. He is experienced with UI and API test automation in addition to performance testing, database testing, mobile testing and application integration testing.

Michael has over 12 years of experience working with software development teams in the roles of quality advocate, business analyst, mentor/trainer, consultant and retrospective facilitator.

Speaker Presentations

T13

Cypress Holds the Belt. Is Selenium Still in the Fight?

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Thursday, October 6, 2022 - 1:30pm

Concurrent Session

Cypress is standing tall as the leader in today’s automated testing community. Does that mean Selenium has been knocked out? I thought so after first using Cypress to build my company’s corporate website automation suite. I loved the simplicity of the install, the stability of the test runs and the easier-to-read code, not to mention the size of the active community. Using cy.contains() made writing automated tests so easy. But all it took was one week on a client project to convince me that Selenium was not out of the fight. Cypress was not able to handle authentication with Azure AD...

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