Upcoming Events

Live Stream #5

Automation Cookbook: Coding Recipes for Tests

May 27 | Virtual

For the next couple of months, I’ll be live streaming every Wednesday at 12:00 PM PST. In each session, I’ll take a specific automation challenge and come up with a recipe for solving it.

The Future of Testing 2020 - Europe

Best Practices in Testing From Innovative Brands

June 11 | Virtual

Research on what and how top innovative companies are approaching test automation.

The Future of Testing 2020 - APAC

Best Practices in Testing From Innovative Brands

June 25 | Virtual

Research on what and how top innovative companies are approaching test automation.

Accento Digital

Test Automation Beyond Java 8

July 7 | Virtual

This talk introduces the new features of Java 9 - 14 and provides examples of how these features can be used for test automation. Your test code no longer has to be as verbose as it once was, meaning less code to write and maintain!

JetBrains Java Day

Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework

July 10 | Virtual

Learn when and where to add visual assertions to your existing automation framework, how to work with various match levels including ones suitable for dynamic content, and how to evaluate and resolve visual test results. There will be live coding!

RenderATL

Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework

August 24 - 26 | Atlanta, GA

Learn when and where to add visual assertions to your existing automation framework, how to work with various match levels including ones suitable for dynamic content, and how to evaluate and resolve visual test results. There will be live coding!

Agile Testing Days

Keynote: Where Is My Flying Car?! Test Automation in the Space Age

November 8 - 13 | Potsdam, Germany

The Jetsons have traveled from the future to check on our progress towards an automated world!

Agile Testing Days

Workshop: Selenium WebDriver with Java

November 8 - 13 | Potsdam, Germany

Automation skills are in high demand, and many testers are seeking to expand their knowledge in this area. In this workshop, you’ll gain hands-on experience building a test automation framework from scratch with Selenium WebDriver and Java, the most popular combo for web UI test automation in the industry!

Previous Talks/Workshops

• Becoming an Inventor: A Guide to Patent Development, May 2020, In Streaming Color, Virtual
• Authen(tech), Panel Discussion, May 2020, Virtual
• Test Automation Beyond Java 8, May 2020, Applitools Webinar, Virtual
• Test Automation Beyond Java 8, May 2020, SauceCon, Virtual
• Best Practices in Testing from Innovative Brands, May 2020, Future of Testing, Virtual
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, April 2020, GDG Memphis Meetup, Virtual
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, April 2020, TestBash Home, Virtual
• Best of Breed: Successful Test Automation Practices from Innovative Brands, April 2020, Testing Talks Online, Virtual
• Using Apache POI to Read Excel Files, April 2020, Live Stream
• Which Tests Should We Automate, April 2020, Fannie Mae, Virtual
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, April 2020, QA at the Point Meetup, Virtual
• How to Select Dates from Date Pickers, April 2020, Live Stream
• How to learn new skills while social distancing (panel), April 2020, #LockdownConf, Virtual
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, May 2020, Women In Testing Conference, The Association of Nigeria Software Testers, Virtual
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, April 2020, Johnson & Johnson, Virtual
• Computer Programming, Not Just a Man’s Sport, March 2020, International Women’s Day Celebration, Women of DevC Lokoja, Virtual
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, March 2020, Odyssey, Virtual
• Adding Frontend Tests to Your Pipeline, March 2020, Webinar
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, March 2020, Mozilla, Virtual
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, February 2020, Hacking with the Homies, Detroit, MI
• Where’s My Flying Car?! Test Automation in the Space Age, February 2020, TSQA, Durham, NC
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, February 2020, DevNexus, Atlanta, GA
• Best Practices in Testing From Innovative Brands, February 2020, Applitools Day, Atlanta, GA
• Best Practices in Testing From Innovative Brands, February 2020, Applitools Day, New York, NY
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, February 2020, JSConf, Honolulu, HI
• Oxygen IDE: A Breath of Fresh Air, February 2020, Automation Guild, Virtual
• Visual Testing: More than Just a Pretty Face, January 2020, American International Group (AIG), Charlotte, NC
• Test Automation as a Key Enabler for High-performing Teams, November 2019, Webinar
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, November 2019, ConTEST, New York, NY
• Workshop: Visual Validation for Test Automation, November 2019, ConTEST, New York, NY
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, November 2019, Test Masters Academy Meetup
• Coding Future Coders, November 2019, SF Selenium Meetup, San Francisco, CA
• Visual Testing: More than Just a Pretty Face, October 2019, Testbash Australia, Sydney, Australia
• Workshop: Visual Validation for Test Automation, October 2019, Testbash Australia, Sydney, Australia
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, October 2019, ING Bank, Australia, Australia
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, October 2019, Testing Times/Sydney Testers Meetup, Sydney, Australia
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, October 2019, National Australian Bank, Melbourne, Australia
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, October 2019, YOW! Nights, Melbourne, Australia
• Workshop: Visual Validation for Test Automation, October 2019, PNSQC, Portland, OR
• A Tale of Testing the Untestable, October 2019, PNSQC, Portland, OR
• Explain Machine Learning to Me Like I’m 5, October 2019, Starwest, Anaheim, CA
• Societal Influence on the Gender Imbalance in Technology, October 2019, Starwest, Anaheim, CA
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, October 2019, Starwest, Anaheim, CA
• Workshop: Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation, October 2019, Starwest, Anaheim, CA
• Workshop: Visual Validation for Test Automation, September 2019, Starwest, Anaheim, CA
• Workshop: Automated Visual Testing, September 2019, STPCon, Boston, MA
• A Tale of Testing the Untestable, September 2019, STPCon, Boston, MA
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, September 2019, MoT Boston Meetup, Boston, MA
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, September 2019, Digital Transformation Meetup, London, UK
• How to Become an Automation Engineer, September 2019, September 2019, Lloyds Bank, London, UK
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, September 2019, Full Stack Fest, Sitges, Spain
• Technical Writing Workshop, August 2019, Write/Speak/Code, San Francisco, CA
• Visual Validation for Test Automation, August 2019, CAST, Cocoa Beach, FL
• Coding the Future Coders, July 2019, DevCon/BBWorld, Austin, TX
• Verifying the Quality of Machine Learning Applications, July 2019, OSCON, Portland, OR
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, June 2019, Software Test Automation Meetup, Santa Barbara, CA
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, June 2019, Appium Conf, Bengaluru, India
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, June 2019, The Lead Developer, London, UK
• Panel: What is DevOps’s Next Big Thing, June 2019, Agile & DevOps West, Las Vegas, NV
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, June 2019, Agile & DevOps West, Las Vegas, NV
• Coding the Future Coders, May 2019, Joy of Coding, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, May 2019, Meetup, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, May 2019, Agile Testing Meetup, London, UK
• The Build That Cried Broken, May 2019, Continuous Lifecycle, London, UK
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, May 2019, Craft Conf, Budapest, Hungary
• Lightening Keynote, Unpopular Opinions: Software Testing Edition, May 2019, STAREAST, Orlando, FL
• Visual Validation for Test Automation (Workshop), May 2019, STAREAST, Orlando, FL
• Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation (Workshop), April 2019, STAREAST, Orlando, FL
• Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework, April 2019, Austin Automation Professionals, Austin, TX
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, April 2019, SauceCon, Austin, TX
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, April 2019, Selenium Conference, Tokyo, Japan
• Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation (Workshop), April 2019, TestBash, Brighton, UK
• Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation (Workshop), April 2019, STPCon, San Francisco, CA
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, March 2019, UKStar, London, UK
• How to Secure Speaking Engagements, TechStack’d, February 2019, Online
• A Tale of Testing the Untestable, European Testing Conference, February 2019, Valencia, Spain
• Real World Use Cases for Using AI in Testing, Testim Webinar, February 2019, Online
• The Devil is in the Detail: Good Gherkin for Complex Automation Frameworks, Automation Guild, February 2019, Online
• The 10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews, Tech Intersections, January 2019, Oakland, CA
• Which Tests Should We Automate?, Genetec Connect 19, December 2018, Montréal, Québec, Canada
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, Agile Testing Days, November 2018, Potsdamn, Germany
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, AI in Testing and DevOps Meetup, October 2018, San Francisco, CA
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, AgileTesters Conference, October 2018, Online
• Visual Validation, All Things Open, October 2018, Raleigh, NC
• Level Up: Playing the Automation Game, Selenium Conference, October 2018, Chicago, IL
• Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation, TestBash Manchester, September 2018, Manchester, UK
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, Test.bash();, September 2018, Manchester, UK
• Applying the Principles of Object Oriented Principles to Test Automation, September 2018, Online Webinar
• Which Tests Should We Automate, Meeting of the Minds: Modernizing Testing, September 2018, San Francisco, CA
• The Build That Cried Broken, DevopsWorld | JenkinsWorld, September 2018, San Francisco, CA
• What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code, Bay Area Software Testers Meetup, September 2018, San Francisco, CA
• Which Tests Should We Automate, Meeting of the Minds: Modernizing Testing, September 2018, New York, NY
• Work Out Loud, QualityWorks Company Retreat, August 2018, Kingston, Jamaica
• Advanced Automation for Agile: UI, Web Services, and BDD (workshop), CAST, August 2018, Cocoa Beach, Florida
• Write Day Facilitator, Write/Speak/Code, August 2018, New York, NY
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, Siemens, July 2018, Princeton, NJ
• Owning Our Narrative, Agile Testing Days US, June 2018, Boston, MA
• The Build that Cried Broken, Agile Testing Days US, June 2018, Boston, MA
• Which Tests Should We Automate, Ministry of Testing Boston Meetup, June 2018, Boston, MA
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, Test Automation Day, June 2018, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• ABCs of APIs (workshop), Test Automation Day, June 2018, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, Nordic Testing Days, June 2018, Tallinn, Estonia
• Advanced Automation for Agile: UI, Web Services, and BDD (workshop), Nordic Testing Days, June 2018, Tallinn, Estonia
• Show & Tell: Explain Machine Learning to Me Like I’m Five, AiSummit Guild, May 2018
• Ten Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews, WaffleJS, May 2018, San Francisco, CA
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, We Are Developers, May 2018, Vienna, Austria
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, Agile Test Automation Meetup, May 2018, Vienna, Austria
• A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer (workshop), Romanian Testing Conference, May 2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, Romanian Testing Conference, May 2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Growing Your Testers to Grow Your Business, QA Symphony, May 2018, Webinar
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, Sealights, May 2018, Webinar
• Societal Influence on the Gender Imbalance in Technology, STAREAST, May 2018, Orlando, Florida
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, STAREAST, May 2018, Orlando, Florida
• Dominoes of Automation (workshop), STAREAST, May 2018, Orlando, Florida
• Applying the Pillars of Object-Oriented Programming to Test Automation, Women Who Code Connect, April 2018, San Francisco, CA
• Ten Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews, Write/Speak/Code SF Meetup, April 2018, San Francisco, CA
• Agile Test Management within Continuous Integration, TestBash, April 2018, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Advanced Automation for Agile: UI, Web Services, and BDD, TestBash, April 2018, Utrecht, Netherlands
• The Build that Cried Broken, Salesforce, April 2018, San Francisco, CA
• Which Tests Should We Automate, SauceCon, March 2018, San Francisco, CA
• Which Tests Should We Automate, TISQA, February 2018, Chapel Hill, NC
• Dominoes of Automation, TISQA, February 2018, Chapel Hill, NC
• Securing Your Next Promotion, Tech Ladies, January 2018, San Francisco, CA
• Expert Roundtable, Automation Guild, January 2018
• 2018 Test Automation Trends: Must-have Tools & Skills Required to Rock 2018, Applitools, December 2017, Webinar
• How to Become an Automation Engineer, Beaufort Fairmont, December 2017, Webinar
• Owning Our Narrative, Agile Testing Days, November 2017, Potsdam, Germany
• Which Tests Should We Automate?, Øredev, November 2017, Malmö, Sweden
• The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World, Øredev, November 2017, Malmö, Sweden
• The Build that Cried Broken, Disney Jedi Engineering Training Academy, October 2017, Glendale, CA
• The State of Test Automation in a Dev Ops Culture, Applitools Quarterly Business Review, October 2017, San Mateo, CA
• The Open Trinity of Automation Architecture, All Things Open, October 2017, Raleigh, NC
• The Build that Cried Broken, Velocity Conf, October 2017, London, UK
• Applying the Pillars of Object Oriented Programming to Test Automation Design, Webinar, October 2017
• Automation at Twitter, Grace Hopper Celebration – Twitter Industry Dinner, October 2017, Orlando, FL
• Which Tests Should We Automate?, STPCon Fall 2017, September 2017, Dulles, VA
• The Dominoes of Automation (Workshop), STPCon Fall 2017, September 2017, Dulles, VA
• Owning Our Narrative, Targeting Quality 2017, September 2017, Ontario, Canada
• Advanced Automation for Agile: UI, Web Services, and BDD (workshop), Targeting Quality 2017, September 2017, Ontario, Canada
• A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer, September 2017, Assurity, New Zealand
• Owning Our Narrative, September 2017, WeTest, New Zealand
• The Build That Cried Broken, September 2017, SQuAD Conference, Denver, CO
• A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer, September 2017, SQuAD Conference, Denver, CO
• Owning Our Narrative, September 2017, SQuAD Conference, Denver, CO
• A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer, September 2017, Twitter, San Francisco, CA
• Flying High with Bluebird Automation, September 2017, Twitter Women Happy Hour, San Francisco, CA
• Developing Your Brand Inside and Out, August 2017, Write/Speak/Code, Portland, OR
• Writing for Developers Panel, August 2017, Write/Speak/Code, Portland, OR
• A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer, August 2017, CAST2017, Nashville, TN
• The Build That Cried Broken, Agile2017, August 2017, Orlando, FL
• The Ultimate Test: Ace Your Next Job Interview, July 2017, Webinar
• #LoveWhereYouWork, July 2017, Twitter Open House, San Francisco, CA
• Q&A with Angie Jones, July 2017, Ministry of Testing: Boston
• Making Your Automation Behave: Extending Your Framework to Include BDD, July 2017, Webinar
• Include Automated Testing in Your Definition of Done, Better Software Conference, June 2017, Las Vegas, NV
• The Build That Cried Broken, SauceCon, June 2017, San Francisco, CA
• The Open Trinity of Automation Architecture, OSCON, May 2017, Austin, TX
• Advanced Automation for Agile: UI, Web Services, and BDD (workshop), Test Leadership Congress, May 2017, New York, NY
• Growing Your Testers to Grow Your Business, Test Leadership Congress, May 2017, New York, NY
• Innovate Your Cool (coding workshop for teens), Art of Cool Festival, April 2017, Durham, NC
• Dominoes of Automation, Ministry of Testing, April 2017, Atlanta, GA
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, Quality Jam, April 2017, Atlanta, GA
• The Build that Cried Broken, Selenium Conf, April 2017, Austin, TX
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, TriAgile, March 2017, Raleigh, NC
• The Build that Cried Broken, STPCon, March 2017, Phoenix, AZ
• Dominoes of Automation (Workshop), STPCon, March 2017, Phoenix, AZ
• Developing Quality-Minded Developers, NCCIA, March 2017, New Bern, NC
• Activism and STEAM (Panel), Duke University, February 2017, Durham, NC
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done (Workshop), European Testing Conference, February 2017, Helsinki Finland
• Starting Out With Selenium (Workshop), European Testing Conference, February 2017, Helsinki Finland
• Architecture of an Agile-Friendly Automation Framework, Automation Guild, January 2017
• Dominoes of Automation (Workshop), TISQA Meetup, December 2016, Raleigh, NC
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, Selenium Conference, November 2016, London, UK
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, TestBash, November 2016, Philadelphia, PA
• How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done, Triangle Testing and Automation User Group, November 2016, Raleigh, NC
• A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer, November 2016, Dayton, OH
• A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer (Workshop), October 2016, Raleigh, NC
• Jump Start Your Automation Efforts, October 2016, Wilmington, NC
• A Guide to Patent Development from a Tester’s Perspective, Ministry of Testing, August 2016
• You Are Prepared (Graduation Keynote), May 2016, New Orleans, LA
• Societal Influence on Gender Imbalance in Technology, March 2016, Durham, NC

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