Cautionary Tales in UI Testing

About the talk

Automated UI Testing is promised as a panacea to all your regression testing woes. While powerful, unfortunately UI Testing hides dirty little secrets. Instead of accelerating software development and preventing costly bugs, most testing suites become endless distractions. In this talk, I'll share my experiences in Automated UI Testing over the past several years, pitfalls I've seen, and strategies to get the most out of UI Testing.

This talk will cover

  • What makes UI Testing difficult
  • How teams get tricked into UI Testing mistakes
  • Why tools like Storybook make testing much easier
  • How you can be successful with UI Testing
Testing & Development Tools

About the speaker

Kevin Lamping

Kevin is a Front-end Engineer. He runs a YouTube tutorial channel on Front-end Testing, along with an online course on the same topic. In his free-time, when he's not playing with his kids, Kevin dabbles in tabletop gaming, disc golf and gardening.

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