David Buckhurst
David Buckhurst is a Technical Architect at the BBC leading the Test Engineering Team and providing the strategic thinking for wider testing problems in the corporation.
David is a passionate advocate of open source and is leading the charge to open up all the BBC’s testing tools.
Talks I've Given
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Hive CI: Making Automation Scale for iPlayer
Featuring David Buckhurst
The BBC iPlayer TV & Mobile applications run across a huge variety of devices. The team at BBC has invested heavily in test automation to reduce its manual testing effort but struggled to scale across physical devices with conventional CI tools.
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Hive CI: Making Automation Scale for iPlayer
Featuring Jitesh Gosai and David Buckhurst
Our remit at the BBC means we have to reach as wide an audience as possible. When you consider how this applies to our iPlayer mobile app, we have to support a huge variety of devices and os combinations. Daunted by the amount of manual testing we would have to perform, we invested heavily into...
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