FRONT-END TEST FEST 2023

10:00 am

Opening Remarks

Joe Colantonio, Founder, TestGuild

Bekah Hawrot Weigel, Developer Experience Lead at OpenSauced

10:05 am

Opening Keynote: Test Like a Developer, Develop Like a Tester

Filip Hric, Cypress & Applitools Ambassador

10:45 am

Organizational Buy In: The Unexpectedly Difficult Part About Testing
Tatiana Walton, Software Engineer at Streamlabs by Logitech

While testing is a critical part of a stable development process, it often goes neglected–even at scale! There are many misconceptions about testing, and obtaining buy-in from upper management and your engineering team can be an uphill battle. Making your team invested and excited about implementing a robust testing strategy is an art form that will determine the health of your codebase and the happiness of your engineers moving forward.

11:15 am

Self-Healing Tests For Your Front-End

Andrew Knight, Principal Developer Advocate at Applitools & Director, Test Automation University

11:45 am

Networking Break - Meet the Speakers

Connect with your favorites experts and speakers! 

Tatiana Walton, Software Engineer at Streamlabs by Logitech

Lennart Jörgens, Senior Software Engineer at Netlify

12:00 pm

Reliability Testing For Meta-Frameworks

Lennart Jörgens, Senior Software Engineer at Netlify

Ever wondered how meta-frameworks test that their software is reliable against OS and browser differences, ad blockers, slow network speeds or other disturbances? That configuration options and core functionalities work in all cases, end-to-end on all platforms? That’s what the makers of Gatsby, one of the largest React meta-frameworks, did to ensure resilience and reliability. In this talk you’ll learn from their experiences and discover some techniques you can also adopt in your own web projects.

12:30 pm

The Pyramid is Dead, Long Live the Pyramid

Ramona Schwering, Software Engineer at shopware AG, Cypress Ambassador

When you think about test automation concepts, the test pyramid is probably one of the first metaphors you’ll stumble across. It advises you on how many tests you should consider at each level. However, voices are getting louder, that the pyramid is out of date. Let’s pick a testing strategy, decide what to automate, and what to leave to humans.

1:00 pm

Lunch Break - Audience & Community Lightning Talks

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1:30 pm

Expert Panel: Future of Testing: How AI Can Accelerate Release Pipelines

Colby Fayock, Director, DevX Engineering at  Cloudinary

Christina Burger, Senior Software Engineer at Runway

Nick Taylor, Staff Software Engineer at Netlify

2:15 pm

Testing at Scale at Meta and Salesforce

Dmitry Vinnik, Meta

Do you ever worry that your testing skills are too limited for your company? Are you concerned that other organizations, especially the ones with a massive scale, require a completely different set of skills?

Worry no more! This talk will look at how testing is done at companies with the scale of the likes of Salesforce and Meta. We will discuss how the most basic testing skills and tools we use daily are transferable to any company.

2:45 pm

Networking Break - Meet the Speakers

Connect with your favorite experts and speakers! 

Ramon Schwering

3:00 pm

Closing Keynote

A Plea For Boring Tech

Jason Lengstrof, Host of Learn with Jason

As developers, we often get to combine the thing we do for work with a thing we do for fun. This is what all those embroidered pillows and motivational posters told us is the best possible outcome, and we should celebrate that! But doing a job that’s also a thing we do for play isn’t free of risks. If we treat our jobs as a hobby, we risk doing things because they’re fun for us and not because they’re good for our company or team. It’s great to be excited about tech and to want to play with exciting tech in our free time — but the tech we choose at work should be boring.

3:30 pm

Closing Remarks

Joe Colantonio, Founder, TestGuild

Bekah Hawrot Weigel, Developer Experience Lead at OpenSauced