We will look at what it means and how to explain it. We will look at different ways of keeping your notes, augmenting your testing with various tools and getting the most out of your time spent. We will do this through discussion and practical exercises, essentially, we will be Exploratory Testing, perhaps not as you know it.

In this session we will cover:

• Passive and Active Scanning
• Fuzzing (yes it’s a real thing)
• Using Contexts and Forced User modes
• Running manual tests using ZAP
• Scripting ZAP with Zest
• Integrating ZAP into existing automation

By the end of the session you will be able to take what you have learnt and apply it directly to your own projects and most likely get a reputation for being a scary tester.

This will be a hands-on session so you will need a laptop (min 2 GB RAM) and privileges to install software and about 20 GB of free disk-space. To maximise the time available in the session, you should consider installing the following software before the workshop:

• VirtualBox
• OWASP ZAP

You will learn:

• How to use Firebug and Chrome development tools for debugging
• Basic overview of the JavaScript language
• Basic overview of jQuery
• Online tools: prettifiers and json formatters
• Automated testing with Cucumber.js, Casper.js and Selenium

We are increasingly moving towards mobile devices to fulfil our day-to-day computing needs. More smartphones are sold than PCs but many people are unclear on what changes to test strategies are needed when working with mobile.

We'll spend a majority of the session testing a mobile application across a variety of platforms, and reporting the results in real time to the rest of the group. All you need to bring along is an open mind and as many mobile devices as you can get your hands-on.

This workshop will provide you with a set of tools that you can take back and implement straight away in your testing profession as well as learning skills for your everyday life, by using interactive creativity, critical thinking games, and easy to remember techniques.

The focus is on freeing up your mind to allow creative ideas to flow and then re-evaluating those ideas using critical thinking approaches. These are the concepts that you will take back with you to use in your daily working environment.

If that is not enough to convince you, then how does the idea of getting some freebies to take away with you help?

You can read about these concepts in more detail on John's blog.

The Selenium WebDriver API is a very powerful tool when it comes to browser automation. Its most common use is for check/test automation, but it has a lot more to offer a tester then this.

He will cover the basics:

• Opening different browsers
• Selecting locators
• Interacting with the web page

He will then explore what you can do with this knowledge and create some tools that can be used throughout your testing approaches.

Attendees will be encouraged to code along, but it isn’t required.

If you do want to code along you will need:

• Windows (VM ok).
• Visual Studio, Express version is free: http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-express-vs
• Firefox / Chrome installed.

As testers, it's your job to convince somebody that there is a bug in a program (or not?) and most of the time it's unequivocal by using a variety of tools that produce consistent and undeniable evidence to support a claim that a bug either does or does not exist within a set of code.

But sometimes it's not so clear cut. What then?

How do you convince others of something?

Together we will discover what it takes YOU to be convinced of something and then explore how other people also become convinced.

The Convincer Strategy combines a range of unconscious inter-personal skills combining Communication & Influence that are applicable in every context whilst dealing with other people:

• Team meetings.
• Managing your boss/team leader.
• Collaborating more effectively with colleagues. I - mproving interpersonal relationships: Partner/Significant other.
• Parenting.
• Networking etc.

At the end of the session you will be more informed about WHAT other people need in order to become convinced of something and more importantly, HOW you can quickly and easily recognise it so that you can present the information in ways that they are are more willing to accept.

If you are looking to take a short excursion away from the regular conference subject matter and wish to dip your toe into the world of interpersonal experience, then do come along to this short workshop that will update your firmware about how the world is and may provide you with new insights as to what's really possible...

This is a practical hands on session which will cover:

• Getting your tests running in multiple threads.
• Supporting multiple driver selection.
• Supporting automatic download of the driver binaries.
• Supporting remote WebDriver connections.
• Looking at explicit waits and how they can improve reliability.

Language is Java, pre-reqs are:

• JDK 7 installed (probably get away with 6)
• Maven installed
• IntelliJ