April 2021 Summaries

In this edition of Unscripted, retired Lt. General James "Jim" Clapper sits down with Aled Miles to reflect on his time as Director of National Intelligence under President Obama and discuss the role of technology in shaping the future of the country.` Aled Miles is hosting a new series of video interviews called Unscripted where he has informal conversations with guests from various backgrounds, including leadership, business, and digital confidence.

Unscripted - Aled Miles & Ramin Sayar` In this edition of Unscripted, Aled Miles is joined by Ramin Sayar, president and CEO of Sumo Logic, to discuss taking a company public during the pandemic, maintaining a strong culture in an all-remote world. The conversation covers the biggest trends driving change in business and technology, as well as digital confidence.

Shifting performance testing left with a front-end performance testing tool can give teams faster feedback from their tests much earlier in the pipeline, allowing them to capture root causes of bottlenecks and congestion earlier, making it easier and less expensive to fix issues. Front-end performance testing is often an afterthought, but adding a tool like Sauce Performance can provide a unified quality signal for testers with a single pane of glass for test results and feedback, machine learning algorithm defined baselines to derive performance baselines, and improve developer productivity by leveraging existing Selenium test scripts.

This year’s SauceCon Online 2021 will be held virtually on April 20-22 and brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts. Andy Knight, known as the "Automation Panda", is a speaker at the event who has built solutions for software testing problems, including leading a team in building a large-scale test automation solution at PrecisionLender, where he manages thousands of tests daily. At the conference, Andy will present on managing test data effectively, highlighting its importance and sharing strategies to tackle this common challenge in test automation.

SauceCon Speaker Profile: Melissa Boggs``` Melissa Boggs has recently joined the Sauce Labs team as VP of Business Agility after being in the agile space for over 12 years. She brings a background in QA and experience as a ScrumMaster, Agile Coach, and co-CEO of the Scrum Alliance. Her agile sensibilities inform her strategies for developing products and people. Melissa's keynote presentation at SauceCon Online 2021 will focus on what it means to be truly agile in today's changing world, and she believes that agility may not be what people think it is. She has adopted agile practices at home with her family, including the concept of retrospectives, which she finds valuable both in the workplace and at home. Melissa is a sought-after speaker at events such as the World Business and Executive Coach Summit and has been featured in Business Coaching and Authority magazines.

Selenium is a widely used test automation framework that uses WebDriver to automate software tests within a web browser, supporting all major browsers and programming languages. However, it has some limitations, such as requiring separate configurations for each browser and being less suitable for mobile app testing. On the other hand, Cypress is a newer testing framework that relies on native Web and browser APIs to interact with web apps, making it easier to set up but only supporting JavaScript applications and certain browsers. Cypress also provides limited support for mobile app testing. When choosing between Selenium and Cypress, developers should consider their priorities, such as writing tests quickly or taking screenshots during testing, and whether they want to involve front-end developers in software testing or cater to QA professionals who are willing to invest time in learning the Selenium platform. Ultimately, both frameworks can be used together to achieve a balance of needs.