July 2020 Summaries

Wim Selles is a solutions architect at Sauce Labs who helps customers successfully implement and get the most value out of their investment in mobile test automation. He conducts trainings, shares best practices, and travels virtually to make people enthusiastic about mobile test automation. Wim advises creating a solid test base for reliable automated testing efforts and avoiding coding for coding's sake, adding value to what you do. In his free time, he contributes to the open source community by maintaining WebdriverIO and spends time with his family.

Unscripted - Aled Miles & Elke Edwards - On Relationships` Aled Miles, President and CEO of Sauce Labs, hosts informal conversations with guests from diverse backgrounds to discuss leadership, business, personal development, and digital confidence. The key takeaway from these discussions is that behavior plays a crucial role in shaping relationships, and considering one's own behavior is essential for improvement. The concept of "E + B = R" (Events + Behavior = Results) highlights the importance of understanding how individual actions impact outcomes. By examining their own behavior and taking responsibility for it, individuals can foster healthier and more productive relationships.

Aled Miles, CEO of Sauce Labs, hosts an informal conversation with Ivy House Founder and Creative Director Elke Edwards about bringing oneself to a state of conscious competence as a leader, which involves being ready to learn and setting aside one's ego. The concept is discussed in the context of leadership, business, personal development, and digital confidence. Aled Miles' approach emphasizes learning agility and the importance of relationships in achieving success.

Unscripted - Aled Miles & Elke Edwards - The ABC of Relationships` Ivy House Founder and Creative Director Elke Edwards offers an "ABC" framework to help create and maintain key relationships. Aled Miles, President & CEO of Sauce Labs, hosts informal conversations with guests from various backgrounds in the series Unscripted, discussing leadership, business, personal development, and digital confidence. The concept is built around the idea that understanding and applying the right qualities can lead to better outcomes, specifically in relationships.

Aled Miles and Elke Edwards discuss the qualities of a leader in an informal conversation as part of the Unscripted series. According to Elke Edwards, true leaders are motivated by learning rather than winning or being right. She emphasizes the importance of courage and self-awareness in leadership, suggesting that leaders should strive to be courageous learners. The conversation touches on topics such as digital confidence, relationships, and personal development, highlighting the value of informal discussions and interviews in exploring these themes.

Aled Miles, CEO of Sauce Labs, hosts an interview series with guests from diverse backgrounds to discuss leadership, business, and digital confidence. Elke Edwards, Founder of Ivy House, shares her perspective on how emerging leaders can cultivate learning agility through their experiences. The conversation highlights the importance of relationships and the connection between behavior, events, and results in achieving success.

Unscripted - Aled Miles & Elke Edwards - E + B = Results` Aled Miles and Elke Edwards discuss the importance of self-perception in leadership. Elke Edwards explains a formula that highlights how perception affects results, which is Event + Behavior = Results. The conversation is part of the Unscripted series, where Aled Miles hosts informal conversations with guests from various backgrounds about leadership, business, personal development, and digital confidence.

The growing trend of remote work has created challenges for organizations in securing their networks and applications, as employees' mobile devices and personal networks can provide a vulnerable entry point for hackers. To address this issue, organizations need to rethink their network security strategy by adopting authentication and testing for vulnerabilities inside the network where their applications reside. This includes implementing concrete user restrictions with a privileged access model to limit who has access to their network and applications, and what they can access. Furthermore, organizations should consider implementing strong security solutions that have access policy controls, which can help identify and fix network vulnerabilities and monitor network activity, ultimately making it an expensive and difficult prospect for hackers to breach the network.

At Sauce Labs, continuous testing is defined as a best practice approach to software quality that involves testing earlier and more often throughout the development lifecycle. This approach realizes several benefits, including fewer bugs found in production, faster release cycles, and improved customer experience. However, teams must also navigate the challenge of managing increasing volumes of test data and quality signals. By implementing certain best practices, such as setting test status to pass/fail, annotating tests with additional context, giving tests meaningful and consistent names, and associating tests with builds, teams can harness the power of test data to optimize their testing practice and achieve improved software quality. These strategies enable teams to uncover quality gaps, understand resource allocation, celebrate success, and make data-driven decisions that drive continuous improvement. By adopting these best practices, teams can build digital confidence in their organization and develop new code and testing processes with increased confidence.

We have expanded support for two more “developer-focused” testing frameworks: Cypress and TestCafe. This is part of our effort to empower developers with the tools they need to achieve quality at scale, by meeting them where they are from a tooling perspective. We now offer a preconfigured Docker container environment through saucectl, allowing developers to easily set up and execute tests without relying on servers or drivers. This enables faster testing times, instant feedback, and more productive developers, which in turn accelerates release speeds. Additionally, we provide CI integrations, debugging tools, and insights to help developers pinpoint test failures and improve test efficiency.

You've realized the benefits of test automation and want to take it to the next level by running your tests continuously and at scale. To do this, you need to reconfigure your existing tests to run in the cloud, but fortunately, it's a straightforward process that can be completed quickly with the right resources. You can start by retrieving your Sauce Labs access key and easily pointing your tests to Sauce Labs using short demos, and then refer to our documentation for code samples to get you started.

Diego Molina is a Selenium core committer who believes open source software opens one's mind and allows for growth as a professional and person. As the organizer of the Continuous Testing Meetup Berlin, he shares knowledge with the community to improve the Sauce Labs platform. Diego started on the live testing team at Sauce Labs, helping users get the most out of their manual and exploratory testing. He is now part of the Sauce Labs Open Source Program Office, where he assists others in working with open source. Molina has contributed significantly to improving Selenium's documentation and expanding its use across different languages and cultures. In his free time, Diego enjoys futbol and salsa dancing.

Selenium WebDriver is a free and open-source tool used for web automation, allowing users to execute tests against various browsers. It's a collection of APIs that provide language-agnostic functionality through client drivers in languages such as Ruby, Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript. With Selenium WebDriver, teams can increase testing speed, accelerate cross-browser tests at scale, and focus on creating higher-quality code. While it has some drawbacks, such as limitations in automating certain types of tests and compatibility issues with native or mobile applications, Selenium is a flexible and scalable choice for many teams looking to start automated testing.

Dave Haeffner's Selenium Guidebook is now available to anyone who signs up for a free trial of the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud. The guidebook provides step-by-step guidance on how to use Selenium successfully and has helped numerous companies implement automated testing. It covers both beginners and experienced automation engineers, offering comprehensive coverage of best practices and advanced concepts like parallel testing. With Dave Haeffner's expertise combined with the Sauce Labs platform, users can access a powerful combination of real-world advice and proven testing solutions. The guidebook is also complemented by another resource, Getting Started with Appium, which covers mobile testing in Java and Ruby versions.