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The Future of Test Automation

Talkat Agile Singapore Conference 2016 · on Monday, 2016-10-17· [testing]
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Claims that testing economics shift as cloud and IoT explode: 40 billion devices by 2020 and a $7.1 trillion IoT market force testing across thousands of platforms; examples include Amazon Device Farm running hundreds of real devices in minutes, BrowserStack and SauceLabs covering thousands of OS/browser combos, and Tapsterbot physical tapping to automate real-device gestures. He points to mutation and approval testing, a 65KB database of problematic strings and visual-diff tools (BBC rate, Applitools) as practical, already-working approaches.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 4:51Expected vs Unexpected
  3. 11:29Human Unpredictability
  4. 15:59Crowdsource Organization Tools
  5. 18:11Approval Style Testing
  6. 24:58User Interface Testing
  7. 28:53Design Language
  8. 29:21Impossible to Predict
  9. 35:31Forty Shades of Blue
  10. 38:11Big Data
  11. 41:47Outro
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