There are a common set of techniques that seasoned test automation practitioners know to be the pillars of any successful automated testing practice that can be fit into most (if not all) team contexts.

But some things have either been left out, or are described in ways that are disadvantageous for the industry simply because we don't talk about it from the perspective of the fundamentals used to craft them.

By reasoning from first principles, we will be able to unearth a more impactful definition of test automation that can act as a compass and help supercharge everyone's test automation practice - while also understanding how to navigate the uncharted waters of new technologies that challenge existing paradigms.

Both frameworks Cypress and Playwright are still pretty new to the market, unlike Selenium.

That's why there are a lot of unknowns about the real advantages and limitations of both frameworks.

Sometimes it can be costly to the company if they accidentally make a wrong decision and then need to transition to another framework.

This presentation can help them to make the right choice.

Embark on a test automation odyssey inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, navigating through Katalon's usage maturity stages. Begin with low-code/no-code feats in Katalon Studio, advance to crafting custom spells with keyword scripting, and ascend to mastery with scheduled executions and TestCloud. Overcome challenges, reap rewards, and wield the Katalon arsenal. Dive into the strategic realm of TestOps for comprehensive reporting and analytics, empowering your Quality Engineering team on this epic journey towards automated excellence.

QA testers can get started with test automation through approachable languages like Python even without programming experience.

Many QA pros lack coding skills to transition to test automation.

In this session, you will learn:
• Basics of Python syntax and setup
• Writing simple test scripts
• Locating and using existing test frameworks
• Best resources for self-directed learning

Explore the exciting possibilities of Generative AI in business process automation, a once-daunting concept now made accessible by OpenAI / ChatGPT and other AI/ML technologies.

Join Jonathan as he discusses practical applications of Generative AI in Software Delivery, no AI expertise required.

Don't miss out on implementing these valuable practices and being part of the future of software development.

Clean code in test automation is the foundation for building reliable, maintainable, and efficient test suites, ultimately accelerating software delivery and improving collaboration among team members.

In this session, Chris goes over the importance of Automation Guild community and how you can leverage it throughout the year to benefit your day-to-day efforts.

Journey through the world of API automation testing and development.

Whether you're a beginner, junior to mid-level SDET, or a senior SDET/Developer, this topic has something for everyone!

Discover how to seamlessly integrate continuous
performance testing into your DevOps processes, enabling your development team
to ensure peak app performance after every code change.

API testing plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, functionality, and security of modern software applications. 

Yet, conducting API tests manually can swiftly become burdensome and time-intensive.

In this session, Anna will demonstrate how attendees can expedite their journey toward API test automation using Cypress, a user-friendly framework renowned for its ease of use and accessibility.

This session aims to provide actionable strategies to overcome ineffectiveness and inefficiencies and improve test coverage in test automation practices.

Folks can learn and implement:
• Ways to improve test coverage
• Ways to improve test effectiveness
• Ways to improve test efficiency
• Ways to reduce test scripts maintainability

Conversational AI is becoming the integral part of how people interact with technology today.

However Conversational AI chatbots requires innovative strategies for testing to ensure a reliable & user-friendly experience.

Hence the basic knowledge of Chatbot and Conversational AI will help attendees keep up the pace and their skillset as per changing business.

This session will also explore the latest trends and technologies in Conversational AI as well as best practices to test chatbots.

Explore the evolution of AI in test automation as we uncover the problems with traditional coding and show how AI makes testing smarter and easier.

See how AI connects code and cognition, bringing ground-breaking innovation to testing.

This session aims to increase smoke testing awareness and share a plan with you for how to get smoke tests automated quickly and run consistently going forward.

The transition to cloud platforms has brought about significant advantages for enterprises, including enhanced agility, scalability, and reduced capital costs. However, the practices of application lifecycle management are striving to catch up with this transformative shift. Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) have emerged as crucial components for traditional application development and release management, enabling the continuous release of high-quality products with integrated customer feedback.

While developers are well-acquainted with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment (the 3Cs), the realization of these practices necessitates a fourth C—Continuous Testing, also known as Test Automation. In the realm of modern continuous integration and deployment environments, each change demands a set of tests, and the completion of each test provides valuable information for test reprioritization, identifying code issues, analytics, and more.

Notably, Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a pivotal role in this landscape, driving innovation in continuous testing. The need of the hour is an effective framework for orchestrating automated tests at scale, facilitated by AI capabilities. This approach accelerates releases while maintaining a vigilant focus on quality. Join Manoj as he explores the top challenges in continuous testing and effective strategies for managing tests at scale. The presentation will draw on practical examples, addressing key challenges such as choosing the right tool/framework, determining what to automate, handling flaky tests, managing test environments, and executing distributed testing on remote machines.

This talk will delve into intermediate to advanced usage of tools including Selenium, Docker, Kubernetes, LambdaTest HyperExecute. Live demonstrations from LambdaTest will showcase real-world implementations of AI in continuous testing.

This session addresses the issue of bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams in test automation, highlighting how low-code solutions can empower diverse team members and transform skepticism into enthusiasm.

There is no easy way to have a controlled simulated test environments with isolated states, unique data and simulated failures, which is
essential to have robust test automation.

We will see how to achieve it using static and dynamic mocking strategies using Wiremock.

Using visual product modelling to find the right coverage levels for your testing.

• Agile & Modern Testing requires lean test design & execution engine.
• Text based test design / test cases are hard to collaborate, review, modify, and update for large projects.
• Testing teams need effective ways to find the right coverage levels for their needs.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is rapidly evolving and has a huge ability to reshape many industries.

This session will equip you with an introduction to NLP and the knowledge to test this type of AI effectively, preparing you for the future.

The fact is that NLP, despite its complexities, can be tested in a straightforward manner.

In this session, Emily will use Mocha and Chai in TypeScript - although no coding knowledge will be needed to follow along.

Setting up test automation can be a painful task. Setting automation up for mobile projects can be even more painful. There are tools on the market, that require heavy installation and configuration processes. It takes lots of time. Time that can't be used for writing automation scripts.

How cool would it be, to have a test automation tool for mobile apps, that can be installed in some minutes with just a few commands? Sounds too good, right? In this talk, Daniel will show how fast and easy the setup of maestro is. He will show from scratch the installation process as well as writing the first automation script for any mobile app available on the market!

Key Takeaways:

- How to install maestro
- How to write your maestro script

Discover how AI transforms the SDLC. Through practical examples, learn how to seamlessly integrate AI into your daily work to speed up software delivery and improve quality.

We all hate test flakiness. Unfortunately, there is no tool out there that has given us a 100% flake free testing experience.

The only way to fix that is to dive in and understand what’s going on.

In this talk, Filip will share examples of the most common flakiness sources and give actionable solutions for fixing them, while at the same time avoid unnecessary waiting that prolongs test execution.

He’ll take a deep dive into test code as well as the application code and get a better understanding of underlying logic.

Plus, he’ll also reveal the invisible monsters that break our test automation and find ways to remove them.

Transitioning from a J.O.B. mindset to an S.M.E mindset.

• How to stand out in your company and technical community as someone worth listening to.
• Why we need Quality Craftsmen in Testing and Automation.
• Basic skills that can lead to more influence and a bigger salary.

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One of the great challenges with increased velocity in software delivery is the implementation of continuous quality alongside the development effort.

As software development practices mature, software QA must keep pace and provide value to not only the QA team members, but also to the developers directly.

By linking quality assurance reporting directly into CI platforms such as Jenkins, developers get feedback on the status of their software changes as quickly as possible in the solutions they already know and use, while the QA teams still have complete visibility into the state of quality from their own solution set.

By sharing information quickly and in context, both teams work much more efficiently and easily in the journey of software delivery.

This presentation will discuss real-world cases where load testing was missed, and how to avoid these mistakes, covering also the first steps and considerations for getting started with load testing, and how to analyze and interpret the results.

This session will provide engineers with the ability to test their API's in an automated fashion, pre-merge.

Manual QA is the most expensive QA method a company can employ and our company was dependent upon it.

We transitioned to an automated first methodology and do not regret it.

In this session, you'll discover how:
• Manual QA is absorbing valuable time for QAs who can spend their time writing automation (e2e, performance, penetration testing, exploratory testing, stress testing and so on) which increases the quality of the product in a more impactful way than using exclusively manual testers.
• With smaller QA teams on smaller development teams for small to mid sized tech companies it is vital to have automation methods in place over manual testing by QA engineers to ensure quality.

This talk will educate folks about API vulnerabilities and the importance of Security testing for APIs.