VanQ: Rethinking Testing – Moving to the Cloud

BuildDirect Technologies 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

As the summer comes to an end we thought a fitting topic for September's Meetup would be the Cloud! Sean Wilson will be taking us on a journey of moving testing to the cloud. The widespread cry of; “To the cloud!” is on the lips of many software companies. “Cloud” has become the latest in […]

VanQ: Pushing to Production 10 Times a Day

Hootsuite Headquarters 5 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada

At Hootsuite we ship code to production multiple times a day; deployment is automated and kicked off and monitored by developers.  In this environment how does QA help contribute to safe deployments with high quality and minimal bugs?  In this talk Mike will discuss what Hootsuite's process is, what is working and some things that […]

VanQ: How to make Selenium WebDriver scripts faster?

TriNimbus HQ Suite 280 - 1401 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Selenium WebDriver scripts are slow. It is common to have even simple scripts running in 10 seconds or more. The execution time gets longer and longer when adding more automation scripts. What can be done for making the Selenium scripts faster? The presentation will look into different things that, when used together, reduce the automation […]

Scriptless Automation using Excel

TriNimbus HQ Suite 280 - 1401 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada

This presentation is based on the idea of creating a reusable framework to automate a web based application using Selenium so that once created, it can be used by non-developers to create automated test suites for any web based application with Excel or any other Windows interface. Session Takeaways: - What is Scriptless Automation - […]

Methods in Automated and Manual Testing for Web & App Accessibility

Central 1 Credit Union 1441 Creekside Drive, Vancouver, BC

This presentation will: Provide a background on web accessibility standards and legislation Discuss software tools to automate the discovery and remediation of accessibility issues Present methods for manual testing for desktop and mobile devices Presenter - Janos Sitar: Janos joined Central 1 in September 2015 as a Web Accessibility Specialist. Currently, Janos is leading projects […]

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VanQ: Stuart Ashman from Vision Critical

Vision Critical - PwC room 200 Granville St, Vancouver , BC, Canada

Topic: Where is the Risk? In this discussion, Stuart will talk about his risk-based approach to testing. He will Introduce the simple steps of a risk-based approach, share some heuristics he uses to help facilitate the risk analysis discussions, and invite some interaction with an example he uses as part of the interview process at […]

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VanQ: Endpoint Testing with Gatling

TriNimbus HQ Suite 280 - 1401 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Endpoints testing is becoming an important piece in the full spectrum of testing, and there are many of tools to help with this. At this meetup, we're going to take a look at Gatling for testing endpoints. Using Gatling allows us to incorporate endpoints testing into an existing scala-based test automation framework. And since Gatling […]