Visual Testing: More than Just a Pretty Face - Angie Jones

Talk Description

Adding visual validation to existing automation frameworks is known to catch cosmetic bugs due to alignment or disappearing elements. Many use it to make sure their applications are as beautiful as they intend them to be. While this is certainly a beneficial usage of visual testing, it’s only scratching the surface.

As toolsmiths, let’s explore how else we might be able to use visual testing tools to meet our regression testing needs.

In this talk, Angie will share three unexpected benefits of visual test automation:

• The removal of boilerplate code and subpar assertions
• The ability to perform localization regression testing more effectively
• The ability to execute cross-platform testing faster and more reliably

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

Angie Jones

Angie Jones is a Java Champion and Principal Developer Advocate who specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. She shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world, writing tutorials and technical articles on angiejones.tech, and leading the online learning platform, Test Automation University.

As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the US and China. In her spare time, Angie volunteers with Black Girls Code to teach coding workshops to young girls in an effort to attract more women and minorities to tech.