About the event:
Test Automation is hard. Don’t let anybody convince you otherwise. It’s easy to get mired in dozens of failing or flakey tests, spending days debugging a single problem or long nights staring blankly at the screen wondering what to do next. Automation requires special skill sets and particular ways of looking at and solving problems. You not only have to be a good tester, you have to be a good programmer and developer. Tonight, Tracey will walk you through some of the tricks he’s learned in his 16 years of test automation and show you some common mistakes all new automation engineers seem to make. We’ll review some code examples, but it’s not a programming lesson. Instead, we’ll break down some of the codes issues, isolating and separating out each problem into nice, bite size, manageable pieces. Hopefully after tonight you’ll come away with some fresh ideas to try and make your own test automation projects more maintainable and manageable.
About the speaker:
Tracey is a Test Automation Architect at Genesys Inc. He has over 22 years of experience in testing starting, as many did, in manual testing. He quickly took a liking to programming and transitioned to test automation in 2004, where his focus has remained. He currently maintains several test automation projects as well as offering guidance and mentoring to some 80 QA Automation Engineers on the Genesys-Cloud project. His passion is assisting new teams and new automation engineers in getting their automated testing projects off the ground.