!! PLEASE NOTE — LOCATION CHANGE: We are meeting in Building C this month!!
| Speaker: | Ralph Navarro |
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| Date: | Tuesday – September 19, 2017 |
| Agenda: | 6:00-6:45 Networking, FREE PIZZA and Roundtables 6:45-7:00 Opening Announcements 7:00-8:20 Featured Presentation 8:20-8:30 Closing Announcements |
| Who’s Invited: | Everyone (industry, government, academia) |
| Location: | The MITRE Corporation Building C 202 Burlington Rd. (Rt. 62) Bedford, MA 01730 |
| More Info: | For SPIN info, contact the SPIN Chairperson. Boston SPIN meetings are free. No RSVP is necessary. Cancellations will be announced. |
NOTE: The earliest arrival time at MITRE is 5:15pm, no one will be admitted prior to that time. Because of security concerns, you will need to present a Picture ID to the MITRE Security Department in the lobby and any large items you bring will be opened and inspected. The building is secured at 8:30pm. All attendees must have left the building by that time.
Important additional information for foreign nationals: Any foreign national attending meetings anywhere within MITRE need to give 10 days’ notice to the Security Department before they show up in the lobby; otherwise they will be turned away. If you are a foreign national desiring to attend this Boston SPIN meeting please email Ken Palmer, kpalmer@mitre.org, or Roy Lane, rlane@mitre.org, more than 10 days prior to the meeting so they can get paperwork submitted within the required time frame. Be sure to bring both a picture ID and visa/”Green Card” information with you to the meeting to present to the MITRE Security Department in the lobby.
Featured Presentation: How to Simplify Automated Web Testing
September’s talk (or workshop if the public internet is fast enough) will be on “How to Simplify Automated Web Testing”. The talk will cover how to organize a number of open source tools for a fully functional automated test infrastructure.
Here are the topics to be covered:
- Demo of automated tests running locally on a browser
- Demo of automated tests running against a selenium grid
- Outline of the infrastructure and technologies we will use
- Browser
- Selenium Grid
- Java
- Selenium
- Gradle
- Groovy
- Geb
- Setting up a personal Selenium Grid
- The power of User Stories and Scenarios for clarifying requirements
- Leveraging Geb to simplify selenium tests
- Connecting the Dots
About the Speaker
Ralph Navarro
Ralph Navarro has been automating the software testing of applications since 1999. He started Navarro Computing in 2006 with a focus to leverage and extend the innovation that only open source tools can provide.