The EuroStar 2022 conference was held in Copenhagem. As part of the conference they created a competition for 2022 Rising Star Awards. I was chosen as one of the finalist for this.
My topic details are here -
We say testing is everyone’s responsibility. But my question is – are we doing enough about it? We are in 2022, and still, there are more tools in the market available to help web automation testers to find locators, than the knowledge and tools for the developer team to make more testable web applications. The part which is more thought provoking is that before making the application testable, they have to ensure that the application being built is actually W3 Compliant. The idea came to me in 2005 when I was building a no code platform called OpKey, along with a dedicated team. One of the areas I worked on was creating our own locator finder. While trying to build complex algorithms to build just the right locator which will finally work to find the element which doesn’t have a unique identifier on the html page.
The idea is unique and time worthy as it will bring a shift left approach in the way web applications are built. We test at the HTML level while they are being built, and ensure they are following all compliance standards. We empower developers and testers with the help of learning and tools to ensure that we are making the thing right, by doing the right things. The problem I foresee is to break the current mindset where people will have to unlearn that instead of finding locators and building too cool AI tools to automatically manage and heal your test, you build the thing in the right way. The support I look for is to empower me to work on this idea with like minded people who believe that change is the only way forward. https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/