Accelerating UI Testing by Omitting API Services

This talk introduces a new open source tool which can be leveraged to manage mocked API services. Discover how it can record and playback API interactions so that your UI tests can run as smoothly as possible and focus on what really matters, your application. I’ll cover the tool’s inception, its journey to the open source community, how it can be used, and the overall time reductions for some of

Sep 28, 2016, 10:00 PM – Sep 29, 2016, 12:00 AM

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This talk introduces a new open source tool which can be leveraged to manage mocked API services. Discover how it can record and playback API interactions so that your UI tests can run as smoothly as possible and focus on what really matters, your application. I’ll cover the tool’s inception, its journey to the open source community, how it can be used, and the overall time reductions for some of our most basic network interactions.

Tom Belk is a Tech Lead working on Capital One Mobile for Android. Luckily he dodged a bullet by picking Android over Web OS back in 2009 (although he still uses his HP Touchpad). Previously Tom worked at Vanguard, building out API services and Android application features. In his free time, he likes to listen to podcasts, bust through board games, and travel his yard in search of Pokémon.

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  • John Mahoney

    GDG Organizer

  • Arpit Mathur

    Comcast

    GDG Organizer

  • Farzad Barzin

    BEX Realty

    Director of Mobile Applications

  • Layla B

    Drexel University

    Doctoral Student

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