vodQA - The Saga Continues in Pune!

After a long break, vodQA returns to Pune. This time, ThoughtWorks & Vuclip are jointly hosting vodQA.

At vodQA, we have always strived to focus on the art and practice of Testing. This edition of vodQA is no different. Hence the theme for this vodQA - "The Saga Continues". 

We welcome all roles interested in the (Software) Quality to participate in this conference.

The event will be held on Sat, 29th July 2017 at Vuclip office in Pune. 

Agenda is as below:

Address:

1st Floor, 

Nanasaheb Gaikwad Information Technology Park, 

Sarjaa Rd, Aundh, Pune, Maharashtra 411007

Above Croma

Link to Map - https://goo.gl/maps/4yWaX6atutw

Slides from vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! now available

vodQA-Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! was held on on Saturday, 27th Aug 2016, 8.30am - 5.30pm at ThoughtWorks, Pune.

Agenda

Abstracts with Slides

1. Automating Web Analytics - Why? How?

Do you know –

• What is Web Analytics?How does Web Analytics work?
• Why is it important? How to test Web Analytics?
• How can we ensure correct data is sent to the Web Analytics server, every time, for all the actions?

Attend this workshop to learn ‘What is Web Analytics?’ and why it is an extremely important aspect of Software Development & Testing for your product / service to succeed!

We will share some techniques for testing Web Analytics - in a non-automated way - and why that is very challenging and error-prone.

We will learn, via hands-on activity, about WAAT - Web Analytics Automation Testing Framework (https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/waat) - an open-source solution, to automate validation of correct information / tags being sent to the Web Analytic server for different user actions as part of your regular Selenium-WebDriver Test Automation Framework.

Lastly, we will see how the impact of Analytics has changed dramatically with more adoption and spread of IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data, and what we need to do to be part of the change, if not influencers of change!

Slides: automating-web-analytics

2. Performance testing with Gatling for Beginners

Gatling is a server side performance testing tool. This workshop aims at giving introduction to Gatling and facilitating participants to write their first performance tests using Gatling.

• Brief intro to Gatling
• Using Postman to check stub server(created using mountebank for workshop)
• Write a sample test using gatling (pre set up machines are provided)

Slides: gatling-performance-workshop

3. Game of Test Automation

We are going to use a game to work out the WHY, WHAT and HOW of test automation within the context of consumers, application, skillset, mindset, etc.

4. Security Testing - Operation Vijay

It is now the days of the web. All businesses move their applications online for their customers to use.

Many of these applications contain critical data of the customers such as credit card details, their personal details and so on. These data are very valuable. If these data fall in the wrong hands, they can have disastrous consequences.

Attacks on these systems can destroy the trust that the customers have for the business, they can cause great losses to the customers as well as the business, and so on.

The motivation behind attacks could be different like earning money, earning popularity, destroying a competitor company, etc.

No matter what the intention of the attack is, we need to develop safe applications and we need to know the various vulnerabilities and the consequences of our decisions when we develop applications.

Similarly, we should be aware of the various vulnerabilities before we test the applications so that we can try and exploit it during the testing phase and ensure better quality and safer applications.

Slides: security-testing-operation-vijay

5. Automate your Mobile tests with Appium

• Introduction to Appium.
• Appium design for Android and iOS
• How to locate elements on android and iOS applications(Inspector).
• Hands-on code snippet for android and iOS(Wordpress as sample app)
• Generating reports (ExtentReports)
• Evolve code snippet written above into a Page Object Framework.
  

Slides: mobile-automation-using-appium

6. Increase Automation to REST

• What are web services and why we use them?
• How to test a web service in multiple ways?
• Increased familiarity with automation

Tools used : rest client, postman (mention alternatives), unirest JAVA and requests python

Slides: increase-automation-to-rest, api-webservice-setup-instructions

7. Let's cook Cucumber

In this workshop we will be covering:

• Advantages of BDD through cucumber example.
• Framework setup along with JAVA and Selenium.
• Writing one end to end test case in real world.
• If time permits - will be covering basic Refactoring
  

Slides: lets-cook-cucumber
 

8. Mobile Automation using Espresso

Imagine a situation where every commit spits out a build that can be deployed to production with confidence. In today's startup era, this can be a huge boost to business as it will reduce the time to market. UI Automation for mobile apps, be it native or hybrid, has been painful since long. But with mature frameworks coming up and Google/Apple realizing the importance of such tools, UI Automation is gaining traction in the mobile space. 

This talk is basically to understand what and why of espresso along with automating a simple scenario using espresso.

Slides: getting-high-on-espresso

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action - Agenda, Abstract and workshop pre-requisites

vodQA-Pune - Less Talk, Only Action!

When? - Saturday, 27th Aug 2016, 8.30am - 5.30pm

Where? 

ThoughtWorks, Pune 
6th Floor, Binarius Building, 
Beside Sales Tax Office, Shastrinagar, Yerawada 
Pune, Maharashtra 411006 

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/KfuJG

What?

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! 
- Registration - 8.30am- 9.15am
- Welcome note - 9.15am

Agenda

Abstracts

1. Automating Web Analytics - Why? How?

Do you know –

• What is Web Analytics?

• How does Web Analytics work?

• Why is it important? How to test Web Analytics?

• How can we ensure correct data is sent to the Web Analytics server, every time, for all the actions?

Attend this workshop to learn ‘What is Web Analytics?’ and why it is an extremely important aspect of Software Development & Testing for your product / service to succeed!

We will share some techniques for testing Web Analytics - in a non-automated way - and why that is very challenging and error-prone.

We will learn, via hands-on activity, about WAAT - Web Analytics Automation Testing Framework (https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/waat) - an open-source solution, to automate validation of correct information / tags being sent to the Web Analytic server for different user actions as part of your regular Selenium-WebDriver Test Automation Framework.

Lastly, we will see how the impact of Analytics has changed dramatically with more adoption and spread of IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data, and what we need to do to be part of the change, if not influencers of change!

Pre-Reqs:

• JDK 1.8
• IDE (Eclipse / IntelliJ Idea / etc.)
• Git
• Firefox browser compatible with Selenium v2.53.1 (v46)
• Also refer here for steps to run Appium tests using WAAT

2. Performance testing with Gatling for Beginners

Gatling is a server side performance testing tool. This workshop aims at giving introduction to Gatling and facilitating participants to write their first performance tests using Gatling.

> Brief intro to Gatling

> Using Postman to check stub server(created using mountebank for workshop)

> Write a sample test using gatling (pre set up machines are provided)

Pre-Reqs:

• Participants should know at least one programming language well (Gatling tests are written in Scala. But participants need not know Scala)
• Prior knowledge of what 'Performance testing is?' would help.

System requirements:

• Homebrew (Package Manager for Mac)
• Java 8
• Gradle
• Intellij IDE(Add Scala plug in)

3. Game of Test Automation

We are going to use a game to work out the WHY, WHAT and HOW of test automation within the context of consumers, application, skillset, mindset, etc.

Pre-Reqs: None

4. Security Testing - Operation Vijay

It is now the days of the web. All businesses move their applications online for their customers to use.

Many of these applications contain critical data of the customers such as credit card details, their personal details and so on. These data are very valuable. If these data fall in the wrong hands, they can have disastrous consequences.

Attacks on these systems can destroy the trust that the customers have for the business, they can cause great losses to the customers as well as the business, and so on.

The motivation behind attacks could be different like earning money, earning popularity, destroying a competitor company, etc.

No matter what the intention of the attack is, we need to develop safe applications and we need to know the various vulnerabilities and the consequences of our decisions when we develop applications.

Similarly, we should be aware of the various vulnerabilities before we test the applications so that we can try and exploit it during the testing phase and ensure better quality and safer applications.

Pre-Reqs:

• Java
• Modern Browser like Firefox/Chrome

5. Automate your Mobile tests with Appium

Introduction to Appium.

Appium design for Android and iOS

How to locate elements on android and iOS applications(Inspector).

Hands-on code snippet for android and iOS(Wordpress as sample app)

Generating reports (ExtentReports)

Evolve code snippet written above into a Page Object Framework.

Pre-Reqs:

• IntelliJ
• Java 1.8
• MAVEN
• Node
• Adb - android debug bridge
• Appium installed through node(npm install -g appium). Once the installation goes well. Hit command “appium” without quote and you should see Welcome message from appium.
• Download & install Virtual Box from here
• Download the basic version on Genymotion Android Emulator from here
• Make sure you chose the basic version which is free for use(Go to individual tab).
• You will be asked to create account with Genymotion before downloading the Genymotion package/installer
• Confirm your account by pressing the link sent to your registered email id
• Once you download, install Genymotion Android Emulator by following the instructions here
• Once you install, open/start Genymotion and click on Add(+) link to add a new virtual device and press Signin and login
• Select Android Version 6.0.0 and Device model Google Nexus 5 or 6. For more details follow the instruction mentioned here
• Select from available option, Press Next and wait till download finishes.
• Press start button & you should see emulator running.

6. Increase Automation to REST

What are web services and why we use them?

How to test a web service in multiple ways?

Increased familiarity with automation

Tools used : rest client, postman (mention alternatives), unirest JAVA and requests python

Pre-Reqs:

• IntelliJ
• MAVEN
• CHROME and POSTMAN

7. Let's cook Cucumber

In this workshop we will be covering:

• Advantages of BDD through cucumber example.
• Framework setup along with JAVA and Selenium.
• Writing one end to end test case in real world.
• If time permits - will be covering basic Refactoring

Pre-Reqs:

• IntelliJ
• Java 1.8
• Maven
• Firefox 46

8. Mobile Automation using Espresso

Pre-Reqs:

• Ensure you have Java 7 or beyond, installed on your box. If not you can download it from here 
• Download & install Virtual Box from here
• Download and install Android Studio from here. 
• Also kindly download the android command line tools from the above link.
• If you open android studio, it will ask you download & setup Android API and build tools which is useful for debug & compile our apps so please follow the steps. Ensure you have following things installed before you come for workshop and downloading it takes lot of time. 
  • Android SDK build-tools v23.0
  • Android API 5.0 or above
  • Install Android Support library from Extras. 
  • Please google in case of any issues while installing SDK
• Download the basic version on Genymotion Android Emulator from here
  • Make sure you chose the basic version which is free for use(Go to individual tab).
  • You will be asked to create account with Genymotion before downloading the Genymotion package/installer
  • Confirm your account by pressing the link sent to your registered email id
  • Once you download, install Genymotion Android Emulator by following the instructions here
  • Once you install, open/start Genymotion and click on Add(+) link to add a new virtual device and press Signin and login 
  • Select Android Version 6.0.0 and Device model Google Nexus 5 or 6. For more details follow the instruction mentioned here
  • Select from available option, Press Next and wait till download finishes.
  • Press start button & you should see emulator running.
  • You’re all set for the event. 

Agenda published for vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action!

The agenda for the upcoming vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! is now published.


NOTE: For this event, we will require the participants to get their laptops (and chargers).

When? 

Saturday, 27th Aug 2016, 8.30am - 5.30pm

Where? 

ThoughtWorks, Pune 
6th Floor, Binarius Building, 
Beside Sales Tax Office, Shastrinagar, Yerawada 
Pune, Maharashtra 411006 

Map: 

http://goo.gl/maps/KfuJG

What?

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! 
- Registration - 8.30am- 9.15am
- Welcome note - 9.15am

Topics covered: 

This vodQA will focus on hands-on activities. We are setting up a bunch of workshops for participants, please keep a watch for details and pre-requisites required for the workshops.

We will publish the agenda very soon in vodQA groups on 
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/vodqa/) and 
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4281359)

NOTE: For this event, we will require the participants to get their laptops (and chargers).

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action!

Very happy to announce the next edition of vodQA - 'Less Talk, Only Action!' with focus on hands-on activities. 

You are required to register & submit for this vodQA edition by filling in the below google form - https://goo.gl/forms/We3002DOlkQXmPsN2

There are limited seats for the workshops, available on first-come-first-served basis. 

NOTE: For this event, we will require the participants to get their laptops (and chargers).

When? 

Saturday, 27th Aug 2016, 8.30am - 5.30pm

Where? 

ThoughtWorks, Pune 
6th Floor, Binarius Building, 
Beside Sales Tax Office, Shastrinagar, Yerawada 
Pune, Maharashtra 411006 

Map: 

http://goo.gl/maps/KfuJG

What?

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! 
- Registration - 8.30am- 9.15am
- Welcome note - 9.15am

Topics covered: 

This vodQA will focus on hands-on activities. We are setting up a bunch of workshops for participants, please keep a watch for details and pre-requisites required for the workshops.

We will publish the agenda very soon in vodQA groups on 
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/vodqa/) and 
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4281359)

NOTE: For this event, we will require the participants to get their laptops (and chargers).

Agenda will be published soon.

Update & Learning from Webinar on Test Automation - Principles & Practices

On request from a very enthusiastic Tester - Buddhini from Sri Lanka, I did a webinar for the Sri Lanka Testing Community on - "Test Automation - Principles & Practices".

Below is the flyer they created.



This was a different type of webinar - with all attendees in Sri Lanka in one room, and me, the presenter, speaking over GoToMeeting from ThoughtWorks Pune, India.

The only thing that did not work out well - was the interactions - which was expected anyway - since the speaker and the attendees were not really face-2-face in the same room. Also, it was unfortunate - that the Internet connection was not the best - hence could not really hear any question / comments what the attendees were asking. That said, the attendees were very responsive - and thanks to video enabled, we could use visual gestures to keep track and have simple yes / no type of interactions.

The slides used during the talk can be seen below.

Test Automation - Principles and Practices from Anand Bagmar

Lastly, there were some questions that were asked by attendees during registration / talk. I will do a followup post with my answer to these. In the meantime, please post more questions, if at all, in the comments section.

• What is the best way we can use to do Load testing? If it is for Java projects then can we use Java Thread classes or is Jmeter a good tool to use? If so how can we use Jmeter tool in a better way? What are the good tools to do performance testing?

• Is it a good practice to automate GUI of the screens or should we always automate server side testing?

• Is Perl a good interpreter to test server side testing? If it is not then what are the good tools we can use?

• Is selenium a good tool to automate the functionality? Are there any other tools?

• How to build an automation framework?

• Are there any other open source tools for Desktop applications (other than Sikuli and AutoIT)?

The story of a 'small' vodQA ending up being 'x-large'

We are extremely happy to start the new year with YASV (Yet Another Successful vodQA) event, this time with the theme - Agile Testing Workshop, conducted on 9th January 2016 in ThoughtWorks, Pune office.

Why the theme - "Agile Testing Workshop"?

Over the past few years, after having worked on numerous projects, interacted with a lot of clients (and their partners / vendors), and gaining insights from speaking with individuals & teams in conferences & organizations, we (the vodQA Pune team), realized that a decent portion of the Software (testing) Industry lacks decent / good understanding of Agile and effective Testing on Agile projects / teams.

So, we decided to conduct the next vodQA in Pune - focussed on Agile Testing to answer questions like - "What is Agile and what does it mean to Test on Agile projects / teams?"

Highlights

• When we started planning for this edition of vodQA, the plan was to keep it very lean - in planning, execution and participation as well. For this, we planned to keep this vodQA 'small'. Little did we realize it would end up being a patiala peg.

• What started out as an event aimed at 30 attendees soon shot up to 180+ RSVPs on Facebook to 160+ confirmations and eventually we had 85+ attendees. Including ThoughtWorkers, we (again) crossed 100+ people for vodQA Pune! - There went a lot of our 'being-lean' out of the window!

• This event was completely driven by the Facebook group (from announcements to registrations to updates).

• We had a quite a few attendees travel from out of Pune for vodQA (ex: Mumbai, Nagpur)

• This was one of the most vocal, enthusiastic and interactive audience vodQA Pune has seen. They shared their experiences and asked a lot of questions as well.

• True to our objective for this vodQA, we ensured there was sufficient time between sessions / workshops to facilitate discussions and answer specific questions from the attendees.

• We had impromptu fishbowl discussion on certain Parking Lot questions.

• After the first session of the day (Agile Game), the attendees celebrated (it was over) by bursting the balloons - early Diwali some would say … :)

• You can see the tweets, comments in the vodQA group on Facebook and pictures here.

• A huge shoutout to the organisers who were constantly tweaking their execution methods, days before the event as our expected turnout gradually rose from 30 to 100+.

Agenda and Slides

Topic	By	Slides
Welcome note	Anand Bagmar
Agile Game	Abhay Dalvi, Vardhan Bhatt & Vikrant Chauhan
Tea break
What is Agile Testing?	Amit Gundiyal & Prasad Kalgutkar	http://www.slideshare.net/vodqanite/what-is-agile-testing-56891493
Effective Strategies for Distributed Testing	Preeti Mishra	http://www.slideshare.net/vodqanite/strategies-for-distributed-testing
Lunch
Testing the Mysterious Sphere	Anjali Wadhwa, Ashwini Ingle & Preeti Mishra	http://www.slideshare.net/vodqanite/testing-the-mysterious-sphere
Break
Test Automation - Principles, Practices	Vardhan Bhatt & Vikrant Chauhan	http://www.slideshare.net/vodqanite/lessons-learnt-from-test-automation-principles-practices
Tea + Snacks break
Patterns in Test Automation (Framework + Data)	Anand Bagmar	http://www.slideshare.net/abagmar/patterns-in-test-automation

 

Feedback

• Ur event is successful when attendees r so involved that they forgot to tweet abt it till d lunch brk :) #VodQA #VodQAPune #ThoughtWorks

• Overall workshop was wonderful. Presentation and content was good. Helpful to understand and implement in our current process.

• Agile testing game taught us to focus more on quality than quantity & take feedback as soon as possible from the PO

• Though I am not working in Agile env currently, I understood whole session and got to learn something.

The always rocking vodQA Pune team!!

vodQA Pune team