Automated Testing: Beyond the Basics

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You've been through some initial test automation training or bootstrapping, and now, a few months down the road, you find you’re spending a lot of time chasing intermittent test failures and maintaining your codebase. You're frustrated and losing trust in the automated tests. Sound familiar? Jim Holmes helps you find approaches that may save your sanity—all based on his years of experience and hard knocks. Beyond the test automation basics like waits, find logic, or basic page objects, Jim takes a dive into more advanced test automation approaches and methods—custom-designed APIs, Selenium Grid techniques, parallel execution to scale up test suites, and coding automated tests using software craftsmanship principles. Jim promises that you'll leave this session with new and practical tips and techniques you can apply to your own automated testing. It’s definitely time to go beyond the basics!