QA MeetUp Report from June 17th

On June 17, a QA MeetUp meeting was held in Nizhny Novgorod for all those who are related to the field of testing and who are simply not indifferent. As many as six speakers spoke at the meeting, and we invite you to watch videos and presentations of their speeches.

- Nikita Makarov, Classmates

“API, Clouds and why it’s all tester”
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Cloud solutions for about five years are among the hot topics of the entire IT industry. They see the potential, as well as restrictions on use. The speaker spoke and showed how the cloud can benefit the tester, and also talk about the API and public services.


Video Recording:
Part 1 it.mail.ru/video/728
Part 2 it.mail.ru/video/729

- Julia Somova, Mail.Ru Group

“Microservice approach of application implementation on the example of the Mail.Ru Mail project testing automation”

In the past few years, the term “Microservice Architecture” has become widespread when an application is built as a set of independent services. The speaker will describe the topic in a few words, and then illustrate this type of application architecture with examples of projects. The report dealt with the fundamental differences between this structure and the monolithic and the resulting advantages, problems and solutions that were undertaken in the company. The topic of integration with Zephyr and viewing autotest results will be covered.


Video: it.mail.ru/video/730

- Natalia Chufyryna, Mail.Ru Group

“How to create a test automation team”

There is an opinion that developers of automated test systems require high qualification in the field of software development and a solid knowledge base. Usually there are not many such people in the testing team. But you can start working on high-quality test automation, even without such experience. The report will discuss:

• recruiting for a test automation training program;
• primary threshold for entry into recruits;
• curriculum development;
• intermediate control and testing;
• starting work on real projects;
• pitfalls and mistakes that can be made.

The use of this knowledge on their own experience allowed the company to obtain a high level of project coverage with tests and achieve results when each of the team develops and maintains autotests, and also automates new projects.


Video Recording:
Part 1 it.mail.ru/video/733
Part 2 it.mail.ru/video/734

- Alexey Khalaij, Mail.Ru Group

“How we automate UI testing in iOS Mail.Ru Mail”

Alexey told what tasks and problems the team faced at the beginning of the journey, what technologies are used to automate testing, what problems arise and how they are solved, and share the results achieved.


Video Recording:
Part 1 it.mail.ru/video/735
Part 2 it.mail.ru/video/736

- Maxim Boguslavsky, Banki.ru

“How to grow an automator and developer in yourself”

For one reason or another, many testers think about starting to write autotests. The report is aimed at those who want to try to study automation, or tried, but failed. Why did someone succeed, and someone not? What skills and personal qualities can help or hinder us in this? Is it worth trying? In his report, Maxim tried to answer these questions.


Video Recording:
Part 1 it.mail.ru/video/731
Part 2 it.mail.ru/video/732

At the end we have some free time left and I read my blitz report on building a test automation pipeline. He told how not to drown automation in imaginary cliches and stereotypes, having built a truly effective test automation process. It was possible to find out in it:

• how to start testing automation;
• what makes automated tests profitable;
• how to turn the dot writing of automated tests into a slender conveyor with streamlined processes;
• about popular errors and errors of test automation and how to avoid them.

The report, it seems to me, fits perfectly into the general outline of the event and was able to talk about the organizational aspects of test automation.


Video: it.mail.ru/video/738