Speaking schedule in the past year, and crazy July 2023!

I am writing on my blog after a very long time ... Don't remember the last time I wrote a post. So what has happened in the past 6-12 months?

Thanks to the wonderful conference and meetup organizers, I have traveled a lot for the following:

• DevOps Days 2022 @Switzerland
• Meetup @New York
• Meetup @Boston
• Selenium Conf 2023 @Chicago,
• Meetup @Sydney,
• Testing Talks 2022, Melbourne
• StarEast 2023, Orlando

I also spoke at many meetups and events in Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune.

I also spoke in some very interesting webinars in this time. The ones that surprised me the most because of the huge popularity and turnouts were:

• Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT and AI in Testing: A Real-World Look
• Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT and AI in Test Automation: Next Steps

While doing this, I have been contributing to open-source - teswiz and AppiumTestDistribution are the big noteworthy items. Recent work has been to support Selenium WebDriver v4 and Appium 2.0 in these frameworks.

Now in July 2023, this is the scheduled lineup of events (with dates, location and topics):

• Saturday, 8 July 2023 - A modern look at AI-powered Cross Browser Testing at Game of Testing, Bangalore
• Thursday, 13th July 2023 - Can AI Autogenerate and Run Automated Tests? - An Applitools webinar.
• Monday, 17th July 2023 - Visual Validation - The missing tip of the automation pyramid & and A modern look at AI-powered Cross-Browser Testing at Gentrack Testing Meet Up, Auckland, NZ.
• Thursday, 20th July 2023 - Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT and AI in Testing & Test Automation, at the Software Test Automation Group (STAG) meetup, Melbourne, Australia.
• Monday, 24th July 2023 - Eradicate Flaky Tests and Automating the real-user scenarios across multi-apps, and multi-devices, at All Things Testing Brisbane, Australia.
• Wednesday, 26th July 2023 - Power your Automation using AI, at Testing Talks Sydney Australia.
• Thursday, 27th July 2023 - Metrics to measure the effectiveness of your engineering processes, practices, and implementation, at ITMA-Applitools event, Singapore.

Analytics - the forgotten child!

After a long time, I spoke about What, Why and How of Analytics Testing at Selenium Conference, Berlin 2017.

This talk was initially supposed to be focussed on Web Analytics only, with impact on / of IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data, but my recent experiences made me realise, the learnings could easily be applied to Analytics from Mobile native apps as well.

So against better judgement, a full 30 minutes before I was supposed to go on stage, I started a revamp of the slides to include more content, which also meant a complete change of flow of the talk / slides. Talk about making stupid decisions, but thankfully, it turned out pretty ok!!

Abstract of the talk:

What is Web Analytics and why is it important? We'll walk through techniques for manually testing your data and automating the validation process.

Just knowing about Analytics is not sufficient for business now. There are new kids in town - IoT and Big Data - two of the most used and well-known buzz words in the software industry! With a creative mindset looking for opportunities to add value, the possibilities for IoT are infinite. With each such opportunity, there's a huge volume of data being generated which, if analysed and used correctly, can feed into creating more opportunities and increased value propositions.

There are 2 types of analysis that one needs to think about:

1. How is the end-user interacting with the product? - This will give some level of understanding into how to re-position and focus on the true value add features for the product.
2. What are the patterns in the data? - With the huge volume of data being generated by the end-user interactions, and the data being captured by all devices in the food-chain of the offering, it is important to identify patterns and find out new product and value opportunities based on these.

Video from the talk:

Slides from the talk:

The What, Why and How of Analytics Testing from Anand Bagmar

The decade of Selenium

Selenium has been around for over a decade now. ThoughtWorks has published an eBook on the occasion - titled - "Perspectives on Agile Software Testing". This eBook is available for free download.

I have written a chapter in the eBook - "Is Selenium Finely Aged Wine?" 

An excerpt of this chapter is also published as a blog post on utest.com. You can find that here.

Perils of Page-Object Pattern

I spoke at Selenium Conference (SeConf 2014) in Bangalore on 5th September, 2014 on "The Perils of Page-Object Pattern".

Page-Object pattern is very commonly used when implementing Automation frameworks. However, as the scale of the framework grows, there is a limitation on how much re-usability really happens. It inherently becomes very difficult to separate the test intent from the business domain.
 
I want to talk about this problem, and the solution I have been using - Business Layer - Page-Object pattern, which has helped me keep my code DRY.

The slides from the talk are available here. The video is available here. 

Video taken by professional:


Video taken from my laptop:


Slides:

Perils of Page-Object Pattern from Anand Bagmar

If you want to see other slides and videos from SeConf, see the SeConf schedule page.