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Mesut Durukal: Crafting a User Friendly Test Automation Framework

Talkat TestCon Europe 2024 · 2024-10-22..10-25· [testing, developer-experience]
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Frames test automation as a product used for reading writing and running tests and gives concrete fixes: enforce descriptive test names, link test code to test management via APIs, add unit tests for framework helpers, use static analysis and consistent patterns like the Page Object Model, publish reusable libraries, measure slow tests and parallelize independent suites, and hunt flaky tests that block pipelines. Examples include multiple Cypress idioms for a two-step click and Yahoo Japan’s dense UI as a reminder to design for actual users.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 15:29Reading test code
  3. 19:44Maintainable test code
  4. 26:17Reliable fast tests
  5. 37:28Summary
  6. 38:55Q&A
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