How to Find Your Way in the Automation Framework Jungle - Wim Selles

Talk Description

The automation framework world currently looks like a jungle, each month a new framework is created and shared on GitHub. They all promise the same, better, faster, smarter, but is this really the case? Have you ever thought about selection criteria for selecting a new automation framework?

During this presentation, I'm going to share what I have seen being used as selection criteria on how to select an automation framework. I'll discuss them all, like:

• grab and hope
• I used this before
• This is hot
• It’s made by Facebook, it must be good
• I have a screw, I certainly can use this hammer to get it into the wood
• I trust nobody, let’s build a new one

But I will also share my experiences when I needed to select an automation framework in the past. I will guide you through a little bit more structured process that might help you select that automation framework that suits the (web) app the best, is the best future proof and opens the way to do proper test automation in your CI/CD pipeline.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

Wim Selles

Sr. Solutions Architect

Wim Selles is a Solutions Architect for Sauce Labs based in the Netherlands. During the day, he assists customers with solving automation challenges in their organisation. By night, he practices his passion for front-end test automation with Javascript. He likes to create his own Node.JS modules to help and support automation engineers and is also a contributor to multiple open source projects that involve testing, such as WebdriverIO, Protractor, ng-Apimock and many more. Wim also has extensive experience using Appium for automating Hybrid and (React) Native Apps. He enjoys sharing his automation experience as a speaker at conferences like AppiumConf in London and SeleniunConf India, on his blog and during meetups and webinars.