2 November 2021

Leveraging Cypress Beyond Functional Testing (Deep Dive Automation Week)

Cypress is currently one of the most popular test automation frameworks out there in the JavaScript community. With so many plugins that it can integrate to, we can actually leverage Cypress beyond just testing our application's functionality. In this talk, I would like to walk you through a few visual testing plugins that you can use with Cypress so you can also catch visual issues in your application.

29 September 2021

Future of Testing: Frameworks

Future of Testing: Frameworks is a free virtual event dedicated to promoting excellence in quality engineering, and features experts from global brands leading engaging sessions about innovations and cutting-edge practices in Test Automation.

13 July 2021

South West Test

For most companies, accessibility testing is still seen as an afterthought and there is often a misconception that testing for accessibility is difficult and time-consuming. We know that there's a lot of benefits in making your website or application accessible, especially in the Digital Era, but why do we still have a lot of inaccessible websites? In this talk, Marie Drake will discuss some of the myths around accessibility testing, how you can shift accessibility testing to the left and how you can easily integrate it into your development and testing workflows.

23 March 2021

Performance Testing with Cypress, Lighthouse and k6

I'm teaming up with Nicole van der Hoeven to talk all things about Performance Testing! I'll be specifically talking about front end performance testing while Nicole will talk about back end performance testing.

27 October 2021

Test.bash(); 2021

There is no direct answer as to what is the best testing tool out there. Context is always key and this applies to test tooling for automated testing as well. Your choice of tools will depend on a variety of factors and what you have used previously might not always work for new projects.

In this talk, I would like to share with everyone what our team's current automation stack is, how we are using modern testing tools and the reasoning behind it and a glimpse of what our future plans are for further improvement.

15 September 2021

Leveraging Cypress beyond Functional Testing

Cypress is currently one of the most popular test automation frameworks out there in the JavaScript community. With so many plugins that it can integrate to, we can actually leverage Cypress beyond just testing our application's functionality. In this talk, I would like to walk you through a few visual testing plugins that you can use with Cypress so you can also catch visual issues in your application.

24 May 2021

OmniTestingConf 2021

OmniTestingConf is a free online event, where testers, developers, and everyone on the software development lifecycle can come together to share new ideas and different perspectives on software testing.

11 March 2021

Shifting Accessibility Testing To The Left

For most companies, accessibility testing is still seen as an afterthought and there is often a misconception that testing for accessibility is difficult and time-consuming. We know that there's a lot of benefits in making your website or application accessible, especially in the Digital Era, but why do we still have a lot of inaccessible websites? In this talk, Marie Drake will discuss some of the myths around accessibility testing, how you can shift accessibility testing to the left and how you can easily integrate it into your development and testing workflows

22 October 2021

Contract Testing 101 (TestFlix 2021)

I'll be giving a quick overview as to what Contract Testing is, how Pact can help with consumer driven contract testing, how it's different from API integration tests or unit tests, what its benefits are, and scenarios where it might not be ideal to use.

27 July 2021

Continuous Testing Meetup: Shifting Accessibility Testing to the Left

For most companies, accessibility testing is still seen as an afterthought and there is often a misconception that testing for accessibility is difficult and time-consuming. We know that there's a lot of benefits in making your website or application accessible, especially in the Digital Era, but why do we still have a lot of inaccessible websites? In this talk, Marie Drake will discuss some of the myths around accessibility testing, how you can shift accessibility testing to the left and how you can easily integrate it into your development and testing workflows.

22 April 2021

Women in QA: Celebrating International Girl’s in ICT Day

Are you considering a move into QA but don’t know where to begin? Have you decided you want to move into testing from another industry?

In celebration of International Girl’s in ICT Day, join BCS SIGiST for a joint event with BCSWomen on Friday 23rd April @ 5 PM as we hear from tech professionals sharing their own career stories and giving advice on how you can successfully navigate your own journey.

5 March 2021

k6 Office Hours with Marie Drake

In this office hours, I joined Nicole van der Hoeven and Simme Aronsson to talk about front-end performance testing, automation testing, and accessibility testing-- all things that compliment load testing and enhance software quality.