Key Topics:

What is a Web service?

• How to build requests to query and manipulate data from a Web service

• Test design techniques to consider when testing a Web service

• What is REST and what makes a Web service RESTful?

Through effective use, we can

• Save ourselves time and effort.

• Encourage participation and teamwork.

• Create outside-the-box thinking.

• Engage in more effective learning.

• Start decision making conversations.

• Improve our inquiry skills.

During this practical interactive session we will explore the power of questions and their ability to

make us and others think by looking at items such as:

• Listening to set the questions.

• Use of probing questions.

• Open and closed questions.

• Constructive conversations

• Tone.

• Rephrasing.

We will do this with exercises and evaluating as we go.

Questions can help create and negate, learn and teach, and stop and start projects, connections and

relationships. Participants will walk away with ideas on how to sharpen their questioning skills to a

fine tool which can be used to transform their every conversation and to increase their testing

thinking.

I use open questions daily to gather more information, open questions give people no other choice

but to churn things over in their head before they respond.

I also use open questions when I collaborate as it helps defocus for a minute while they think about

their answer and helps them realise what is going wrong as their sub-conscious churns away. I have

tone questions used on me, tone can have a huge impact, a one word question and change of tone

can change anything. Would you like to sharpen your questions? Then come along.

Stephan regularly bumps into tasks that are;

• tedious, if done manually
• not done often enough, unless automated
• still not done often enough, unless running them is automated, too.

In the workshop you’ll combine some Ruby tools to remedy this situation. In particular the workshop will cover:

• Writing a simple Ruby program that does something useful, e.g. turn a markdown file into HMTL .
• Wrapping that in a Rake task .
• Automate running the task .

Knowing how to do this is useful, not only for projects using Ruby as their primary language, but can be handy in all projects.

What is expected:

• Some Ruby knowledge; you don’t have to be an expert or anything like that.
• A notebook (or tablet) with an internet connection & Ruby installed.
• Cool if you’re using RVM, rbenv, chruby or similar Mac OS X, BSD; Linux & friends a fine, Windows may be a bit problematic.

Key Topics:

What is a Web service?

• How to build requests to query and manipulate data from a Web service

• Test design techniques to consider when testing a Web service

• What is REST and what makes a Web service RESTful?

Through effective use, we can

• Save ourselves time and effort.

• Encourage participation and teamwork.

• Create outside-the-box thinking.

• Engage in more effective learning.

• Start decision making conversations.

• Improve our inquiry skills.

During this practical interactive session we will explore the power of questions and their ability to

make us and others think by looking at items such as:

• Listening to set the questions.

• Use of probing questions.

• Open and closed questions.

• Constructive conversations

• Tone.

• Rephrasing.

We will do this with exercises and evaluating as we go.

Questions can help create and negate, learn and teach, and stop and start projects, connections and

relationships. Participants will walk away with ideas on how to sharpen their questioning skills to a

fine tool which can be used to transform their every conversation and to increase their testing

thinking.

I use open questions daily to gather more information, open questions give people no other choice

but to churn things over in their head before they respond.

I also use open questions when I collaborate as it helps defocus for a minute while they think about

their answer and helps them realise what is going wrong as their sub-conscious churns away. I have

tone questions used on me, tone can have a huge impact, a one word question and change of tone

can change anything. Would you like to sharpen your questions? Then come along.

Stephan regularly bumps into tasks that are;

• tedious, if done manually
• not done often enough, unless automated
• still not done often enough, unless running them is automated, too.

In the workshop you’ll combine some Ruby tools to remedy this situation. In particular the workshop will cover:

• Writing a simple Ruby program that does something useful, e.g. turn a markdown file into HMTL .
• Wrapping that in a Rake task .
• Automate running the task .

Knowing how to do this is useful, not only for projects using Ruby as their primary language, but can be handy in all projects.

What is expected:

• Some Ruby knowledge; you don’t have to be an expert or anything like that.
• A notebook (or tablet) with an internet connection & Ruby installed.
• Cool if you’re using RVM, rbenv, chruby or similar Mac OS X, BSD; Linux & friends a fine, Windows may be a bit problematic.

Key Topics:

What is a Web service?

• How to build requests to query and manipulate data from a Web service

• Test design techniques to consider when testing a Web service

• What is REST and what makes a Web service RESTful?

Through effective use, we can

• Save ourselves time and effort.

• Encourage participation and teamwork.

• Create outside-the-box thinking.

• Engage in more effective learning.

• Start decision making conversations.

• Improve our inquiry skills.

During this practical interactive session we will explore the power of questions and their ability to

make us and others think by looking at items such as:

• Listening to set the questions.

• Use of probing questions.

• Open and closed questions.

• Constructive conversations

• Tone.

• Rephrasing.

We will do this with exercises and evaluating as we go.

Questions can help create and negate, learn and teach, and stop and start projects, connections and

relationships. Participants will walk away with ideas on how to sharpen their questioning skills to a

fine tool which can be used to transform their every conversation and to increase their testing

thinking.

I use open questions daily to gather more information, open questions give people no other choice

but to churn things over in their head before they respond.

I also use open questions when I collaborate as it helps defocus for a minute while they think about

their answer and helps them realise what is going wrong as their sub-conscious churns away. I have

tone questions used on me, tone can have a huge impact, a one word question and change of tone

can change anything. Would you like to sharpen your questions? Then come along.

Stephan regularly bumps into tasks that are;

• tedious, if done manually
• not done often enough, unless automated
• still not done often enough, unless running them is automated, too.

In the workshop you’ll combine some Ruby tools to remedy this situation. In particular the workshop will cover:

• Writing a simple Ruby program that does something useful, e.g. turn a markdown file into HMTL .
• Wrapping that in a Rake task .
• Automate running the task .

Knowing how to do this is useful, not only for projects using Ruby as their primary language, but can be handy in all projects.

What is expected:

• Some Ruby knowledge; you don’t have to be an expert or anything like that.
• A notebook (or tablet) with an internet connection & Ruby installed.
• Cool if you’re using RVM, rbenv, chruby or similar Mac OS X, BSD; Linux & friends a fine, Windows may be a bit problematic.

Key Topics:

• Setting up and using proxy servers to intercept requests

• How to model an application from a backend perspective

• Designing a test suite based on your application model

• How to automate your test suite using current toolsets

The workshop is based on hands-on exercises and discussions, where we automate different parts of an ASP.NET MVC web application, with Selenium WebDriver and SpecFlow, but the same concepts work with Java or any other platform too. Through the exercises we try to find answers to questions like:

• What is beyond page object pattern?

• What are the UI concepts and why are they important?

• How can you express web automation with domain model terms?

• How can such test fit into a BDD-DDD process?

• How can you address asynchronous issues?

• Is it possible to do test-first with web UI automation?

• What other benefits can be given to us by such a test system?

REQUIREMENTS

The presentation and the coding examples will use .NET, SpecFlow and the .NET implementation of Selenium. For these you will require Visual Studio 2013 or 2015. Visual Studio 2015 Community edition is free and prefect for attending the workshop. For Mac users, a Windows VM is recommended, but I'll make sure the examples work on Mono too. You will need at least basic knowledge of C# and a bit of Selenium WebDriver experience. It is also enough if you find a partner who has all these.

Key Topics:

• Setting up and using proxy servers to intercept requests

• How to model an application from a backend perspective

• Designing a test suite based on your application model

• How to automate your test suite using current toolsets

The workshop is based on hands-on exercises and discussions, where we automate different parts of an ASP.NET MVC web application, with Selenium WebDriver and SpecFlow, but the same concepts work with Java or any other platform too. Through the exercises we try to find answers to questions like:

• What is beyond page object pattern?

• What are the UI concepts and why are they important?

• How can you express web automation with domain model terms?

• How can such test fit into a BDD-DDD process?

• How can you address asynchronous issues?

• Is it possible to do test-first with web UI automation?

• What other benefits can be given to us by such a test system?

REQUIREMENTS

The presentation and the coding examples will use .NET, SpecFlow and the .NET implementation of Selenium. For these you will require Visual Studio 2013 or 2015. Visual Studio 2015 Community edition is free and prefect for attending the workshop. For Mac users, a Windows VM is recommended, but I'll make sure the examples work on Mono too. You will need at least basic knowledge of C# and a bit of Selenium WebDriver experience. It is also enough if you find a partner who has all these.

Key Topics:

• Setting up and using proxy servers to intercept requests

• How to model an application from a backend perspective

• Designing a test suite based on your application model

• How to automate your test suite using current toolsets

The workshop is based on hands-on exercises and discussions, where we automate different parts of an ASP.NET MVC web application, with Selenium WebDriver and SpecFlow, but the same concepts work with Java or any other platform too. Through the exercises we try to find answers to questions like:

• What is beyond page object pattern?

• What are the UI concepts and why are they important?

• How can you express web automation with domain model terms?

• How can such test fit into a BDD-DDD process?

• How can you address asynchronous issues?

• Is it possible to do test-first with web UI automation?

• What other benefits can be given to us by such a test system?

REQUIREMENTS

The presentation and the coding examples will use .NET, SpecFlow and the .NET implementation of Selenium. For these you will require Visual Studio 2013 or 2015. Visual Studio 2015 Community edition is free and prefect for attending the workshop. For Mac users, a Windows VM is recommended, but I'll make sure the examples work on Mono too. You will need at least basic knowledge of C# and a bit of Selenium WebDriver experience. It is also enough if you find a partner who has all these.

What you can learn in this workshop:

• What is needed to be exploring- and testing software
• What exploratory testing is (and what it is not)
• To use models, heuristics and oracles
• Session based testing

All packaged in theory and actual testing.

After the workshop you will be able to:

• Identify testability issues

• Have a rich model to help you address testability problems

• Have an understanding of dimensions of testability and their relationships

What you can learn in this workshop:

• What is needed to be exploring- and testing software
• What exploratory testing is (and what it is not)
• To use models, heuristics and oracles
• Session based testing

All packaged in theory and actual testing.

After the workshop you will be able to:

• Identify testability issues

• Have a rich model to help you address testability problems

• Have an understanding of dimensions of testability and their relationships

What you can learn in this workshop:

• What is needed to be exploring- and testing software
• What exploratory testing is (and what it is not)
• To use models, heuristics and oracles
• Session based testing

All packaged in theory and actual testing.

After the workshop you will be able to:

• Identify testability issues

• Have a rich model to help you address testability problems

• Have an understanding of dimensions of testability and their relationships

In this workshop you will learn how screen reader users visualise content, the strategies they use for navigation and the commands they typically use. We will look at some real-world examples of different types of content, particularly dynamic content that is especially difficult for screen reader users to understand. We will also discuss how screen readers work, why some of them behave very differently, and which ones to use for testing.

For this workshop we will use Firefox with NVDA, which is the best free screen reader on the market. Please download and install it here prior to the workshop if possible, bearing in mind that it is Windows-only. We will have a small number of laptops available if you don’t have your own.

We will be exploring the differences between coaching and mentoring as well as sharing practical skills and tips we have learnt. We will do this through a mix of theory and practical sessions.

We will cover:

• Do's and don'ts

• Adapting your approach for different team members

• And more!

In this workshop you will learn how screen reader users visualise content, the strategies they use for navigation and the commands they typically use. We will look at some real-world examples of different types of content, particularly dynamic content that is especially difficult for screen reader users to understand. We will also discuss how screen readers work, why some of them behave very differently, and which ones to use for testing.

For this workshop we will use Firefox with NVDA, which is the best free screen reader on the market. Please download and install it here prior to the workshop if possible, bearing in mind that it is Windows-only. We will have a small number of laptops available if you don’t have your own.

We will be exploring the differences between coaching and mentoring as well as sharing practical skills and tips we have learnt. We will do this through a mix of theory and practical sessions.

We will cover:

• Do's and don'ts

• Adapting your approach for different team members

• And more!

In this workshop you will learn how screen reader users visualise content, the strategies they use for navigation and the commands they typically use. We will look at some real-world examples of different types of content, particularly dynamic content that is especially difficult for screen reader users to understand. We will also discuss how screen readers work, why some of them behave very differently, and which ones to use for testing.

For this workshop we will use Firefox with NVDA, which is the best free screen reader on the market. Please download and install it here prior to the workshop if possible, bearing in mind that it is Windows-only. We will have a small number of laptops available if you don’t have your own.

We will be exploring the differences between coaching and mentoring as well as sharing practical skills and tips we have learnt. We will do this through a mix of theory and practical sessions.

We will cover:

• Do's and don'ts

• Adapting your approach for different team members

• And more!