Sam Connelly
Bug Hunter Sam
Sydney, Australia
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Sam Connelly could be described as a motorbike riding, robotics building girl geek. She is a Software Engineer in Test at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Mobile Exploraty testing is her speciality, she also leads the Sydney Testers meetup group and is a developer evangelist for YOW! conference. You can also catch her live streaming dev, testing and tech events on twitch at www.twitch.tv/BugHunterSam.
She has previously hosted her own community radio show and started a Robogals chapter in Tasmania.
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Using robots to test mobile apps
How does a robot interact with a mobile app?
In this talk, Sam Connelly will demo a robot called Tappy McTapFace based on a opensource tapster 2.0 design interacting with a mobile app but first she will go through her risk based framework that she developed to help her team create UI automation tests that matter. This approach can also be used for manual testing, generating explorative testing ideas and communicating flows & risks to people outside of your team.
the bug hunt is on
In a world of continuous integration, shorter release cycles and faster development sprints how do you encourage people outside of the shrinking dedicated testing team to help out with finding bugs? This talk will go through 5 activities you can run in your business to engage more people in the bug hunting efforts.
Sam is a Quality Coach at Campaign Monitor with a focus on teaching developers about software testing. She's in a team of 2 testers servicing a team of 50 software engineers. She will share her lessons learned in encouraging more people to take part in testing from running bug bashes to soap opera testing, you will hear all of her hints and tips.
We will go through 5 activities you can implement to engage people in software testing practices
1) Bug bashes; This is a short 1-2 hour activity that can be done with development teams just before a feature will be switched on in production. We will go through how/when to run them, doing post bug bash analyst and prizes
2) Running a quality guild/knowledge sharing practices; this can look like a regular meeting or a lunch time brown bag talk set up. This is a platform to encourage other people to share what they are learning about. Maybe it's to encourage blogging or sharing a book.
3) Assigning quality champions; this is a rotating roster of people who sit within your engineering teams, they can give regular updates on the perception of quality from a team point of view and advocate on behalf of quality on that local level. You might also include these people in your knowledge sharing practices.
4) Dogfooding; how can you use your internal staff resources to help do usability testing before a feature is shipped to production? Sam has observed how android Google Maps executes it's own dogfooding program and we will go through this example.
5) Introducing soap opera testing; this is an activity that can be used to engage the wider business in testing efforts. I'm sure your support team have a good story about a difficult over dramatic customer who was really putting your product through it's paces. Turning those drama pieces into tests can be fun and engaging.
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