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Location: Online. Please ensure that your onscreen name matches your registration name.
Time: The meeting starts between 11:55 am and 12:00 pm, a waiting room might be enabled if you arrive prior to this time. Meeting ends at approximately 1:00 pm.
Speaker: Mesut Durukal
Topic:
The talk “Crafting a User-Friendly Test Automation Framework” emphasizes the importance of user-friendliness in test automation frameworks, drawing from the author’s experience with difficult-to-use frameworks. The focus is on making frameworks easy to understand, implement, scale, and maintain. Key aspects like readability, ease of implementation, reliability, execution speed, and modularity are discussed, with real-life examples illustrating how to achieve these goals. The talk also offers recommendations for improving test code readability, reusability, and execution speed, using tools and strategies for better usability across different profiles of users.
Key Takeaways:
- Participants will see how the test automation framework can be used by different people in several ways.
- Different strengths of a test automation framework will be highlighted which contribute to the user experience of it.
- The audience will see some real project examples that show how our touches can improve the test code and can be applied practically.
- Some final tips like using ML tools efficiently will be discussed.
Bio:
Mesut brings over 15 years of expertise across Industrial Automation, IoT, SaaS/PaaS, Cloud Services, the Defense Industry, Autonomous Mobile Robots, and Embedded Software. Skilled in CMMI, Scrum, and PMP methodologies, he has held key roles, including Quality Owner, Hiring Manager, and Chapter Lead, in multinational projects. Mesut specializes in test automation and CI/CD integration for continuous testing, alongside establishing test strategies and overseeing the testing lifecycle to ensure high-quality project outcomes.
He is the founder and head of Tokyo Test Fest, the first international Software QA conference in Japan, which was a resounding success. Bringing together professionals from 26 countries, Tokyo Test Fest broke new ground in Japan by fostering a global community of quality assurance experts and provided a unique platform for knowledge sharing, networking, and innovation in software testing, marking a milestone for the QA industry in Japan and beyond.
He is a frequent international speaker, the Best Presentation award winner, and a member of various program committees. He has spoken at 150+ international conferences.