Notes on Angie Jones, Make Your Automation Behave: Extending Your Framework for BDD (June 28, 2017)

Notes, Make Your Automation Behave: Extending Your Framework for BDD

Given by Angie Jones, held on Jun 28, 2017  

Recording: A Software Test Professionals Webinar (STP)

"When done properly, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) can drastically improve the communication and understanding of requirements. An additional benefit is being able to utilize the domain-specific language of the requirements to drive test automation. However, like any other automation initiative, when done poorly, this too can fail.

"In this webinar, Angie Jones provides a hands-on technical look into how to:

• "utilize Gherkin-written scenarios for test automation
• "write scenarios in a way that promote maintainability and reusability
• "take advantage of advanced Gherkin functionality such as data tables and objects
• "tie the scenarios to automation code
• "incorporate this approach into existing automation frameworks that use the page object model design pattern
• "share state across multiple steps within a scenario

"Upon completion of this webinar, you’ll have a better understanding of how to:

• "Enhance your BDD initiative with test automation
• "Cleanly extend an automation framework to support executable requirement specifications
• "Support advanced techniques such as data tables and objects within specifications, as well as sharing state through dependency injection".

The Speaker:

"Angie Jones is a Senior Software Engineer in Test at Twitter who has developed automation strategies and frameworks for countless software products. As a Master Inventor, she is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 20 patented inventions in the US and China. Angie shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world".

Speaker Contact Details:

Angie Jones – Senior Software Engineer in Test, Twitter
Twitter: @techgirl1908
LinkedIn: Angie Jones
Website: AngieJones.tech

Q & A with Angie Jones @ Ministry of Testing - Boston, Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Have you ever been to a film festival where after a film screening the director comes out for a Q & A session? Imagine if we did that with someone from the automated testing lecture circuit? 

Last night, members of the Ministry of Testing - Boston gathered together at Cengage Learning to watch a lecture of automated testing, followed by a live Q & A session by the lecturer.  The lecture for the evening? "The Build that Cried Broken". 

The Speaker:

"Angie Jones is a Senior Software Engineer in Test at Twitter who has developed automation strategies and frameworks for countless software products. As a Master Inventor, she is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 20 patented inventions in the US and China. Angie shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world".

Speaker Contact Details:

Angie Jones – Senior Software Engineer in Test, Twitter
Twitter: @techgirl1908
LinkedIn: Angie Jones
Website: AngieJones.tech

Care to read about Angie Jones' recent job search? Read her latest TechBeacon article,
Recruiting diverse engineering candidates: What tech companies still get wrong
at 

https://techbeacon.com/recruiting-diverse-engineering-candidates-what-tech-companies-still-get-wrong

New MoT-Boston Meetup with Angie Jones tonight!

Right now, I am heading to another Ministry of Testing - Boston meetup. Tonight's special guest will be Angie Jones!

Like a director hosting a Q & A session at a film festival after a movie has been screened, after watching her April 2017 "The Build That Cried Broken" http://youtu.be/VotJqV4n8ig Angie Jones, newly employed at Twitter, will be giving a talk via webconference. 

We have 20 people signed up. I hope at least 15 show! 

I swear, we have four hundred new members since January 2017 (700 total) and only ten might show on average. I wonder if it is the location, if iZotope or Cengage Learning are too out of the way? 

I have an enormous bag of swag to give away. SmartBear hoodies, pens and stickers. Sauce Labs T-Shirts and bike reflectors. Ministry of Testing stickers and pins. I just have more swag than attendees!

It was a good day today. I gave an hour presentation and demo on this Summer's Appiuum projects. I think it went well!

Here's hoping!

-T.J. Maher
Twitter | LinkedIn | GitHub

// Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Software Tester since 1996.
// Contributing Writer for TechBeacon.
// "Looking to move away from manual QA? Follow Adventures in Automation on Facebook!"

30 Days of Performance Testing, sponsored by the Ministry of Testing!

From the Ministry of Testing UK Dojo: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/30-days-of-performance-testing

"30 Days of Testing is back! The theme is Performance Testing and this challenge has been kindly sponsored by PerfGuild.

"Below is a list of 30 challenges and a bonus challenge, one for each day of the month. Save it somewhere. Print it out. Stick it on your wall. Let’s do this!"

"The goal is to tick off as many of the challenges as you can. You can do this in your own timeframe, or you can join us in our joint community effort. We will be encouraging others to share their progress from the 1st of July 2017.

"You may have an image to share, a blog post, a video, status update, whatever it is! Come and participate!

"Here is how you can share your progress:

• "On Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn – use the #30daysoftesting hashtag
• "On our 30 Days of Testing category in The Club
• "On our Ministry of Testing Facebook group
• "On our MoT Slack
• "Download an 'I'm taking part badge below"

... Would you like to participate? Are you part of the Ministry of Testing - Boston? Use the hashtag #MOTB to signify you are from the Ministry of Testing - Boston.

Thank you so much Joe Colantonio of TestTalks.com and Mark from Ministry of Testing - Philly and all the rest for coming up with this original event!

Go to https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/30-days-of-performance-testing and print out the image found, post it on your company's bulletin board. See how many your QA team at work can do!



-T.J. Maher
Twitter | LinkedIn | GitHub

// Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Software Tester since 1996.
// Contributing Writer for TechBeacon.
// "Looking to move away from manual QA? Follow Adventures in Automation on Facebook!"