Four Crucial Tips for Automating Your Web Tests
Jim Holmes
Falafel Software
Functional testing your web applications can be extraordinarily frustrating. Intermittent failures, lots of rework and tinkering, and too little time spent on creating new value for your customers.
In this session Jim Holmes will help you understand a few crucial tips to help you get a successful web automation test suite in place: test the right things, understand good locators, handle asynchronous operations properly, and create a backing infrastructure to help you write better tests.
Holmes uses WebDriver for examples and demos in C#, but also discusses how these solutions are applicable to other technologies as well.
Key Takeaways:
- Proven methods for ensuring your functional web tests are more robust
- Get a successful web automation test suite in place
About Me!
Jim is the VP for ALM and Testing at Falafel Software. He has been in various corners of the IT world since joining the US Air Force in 1982. He’s spent time in LAN/WAN and server management roles in addition to many years helping teams and customers deliver great systems. Jim worked with organizations ranging from start ups to Fortune 100 companies to improve their delivery processes and ship better value to their customers. Jim’s worked in many different environments but greatly prefers those adopting practices from Lean and Agile communities. When not at work you might find Jim in the kitchen with a glass of wine, playing Xbox, hiking with his family, or banished to the garage while trying to practice his guitar.