Workshops at SauceCon Online 2022

Join the Sauce Labs experts for a hands-on workshop on May 3. These fully remote, interactive sessions will equip attendees with new skills to take their testing to the next level.

Purchase a workshop ticket to get access to in-depth training – plus help us donate to a good cause! SauceCon workshops are part of the Sauce Labs Testing for Good series. Net proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to support organizations selected by our workshop instructors.

Mobile App Testing

4 hours | Intermediate

Level up your mobile app testing in this 3-part workshop. Learn how to automate hybrid applications with Appium, how to optimize mobile app distribution and beta testing, and get started with mobile error and crash reporting.
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Mobile App Testing (4 hours | Intermediate)

Level up your mobile app testing in this 3-part workshop. Learn how to automate hybrid applications with Appium, how to optimize mobile app distribution and beta testing, and get started with mobile error and crash reporting.

Automating Hybrid Applications with Appium (2 hours | Intermediate)

When creating a mobile application, organizations have a few options to choose from; mobile web, native or a hybrid application. Where web apps are just websites that can be accessed on the internet via a mobile browser like Chrome or Safari, native apps are applications that are developed for a specific platform such as Android or iOS. Hybrid apps are different because they possess elements from native apps and web apps.

When automating web applications, Selenium commands are used. Nine out of ten times the same automation script can be used for mobile web applications as our desktop web applications. With native apps however, we need to look deeper into the differences between Android and iOS apps before we can use Appium commands.

But how should you automate hybrid apps? Can or do you need to choose one of the two automation strategies or is there also a hybrid approach for automating hybrid apps? That’s what we are going to look at during this workshop.

During this workshop we will be using a demo Hybrid app. After this workshop you can use this app to explore more opportunities and practice your new skillset.

By the end of this workshop, you will have written your (first) hybrid cross platform automation script for Android and iOS hybrid mobile applications.

Learning Outcomes:

How to detect a hybrid mobile application for Android and iOS
How to automate a webview
How to switch between webviews
How to use the full potential of automating hybrid apps

Workshop Prerequisites

A Windows, Mac or Linux operating system
Administrator and/or installation rights on your machine
Installed NodeJS, this needs to be an even version, so 14 or 16 (No odd versions like 13, 15, 17 which are not stable versions)
You have downloaded and configured an Android Emulator and/or an iOS Simulator
Have the latest version of Appium installed on your machine (1.20.0 or higher)
Some basic JavaScript knowledge
Please review the full prerequisites and setup instructions here

Workshop Leader
Wim Selles
Lead Solutions Architect, Sauce Labs

Optimizing Mobile App Distribution and Beta Testing (1 hour | Intermediate)

34% of smartphone users claim they would delete an application if they encountered a software bug. User research continues to reinstate the direct impact of customer satisfaction on application adoption, and hence business growth. Yet, preventing bugs from escaping into production and reaching end-users remains a critical challenge for development teams, straddling the balance between faster time to market and delivering the best digital experiences every time. Further, the inherent complexity and remote nature of mobile testing make it harder for developers to understand real user experiences and identify key events that lead to app failures and crashes.

Join Yair Bar-on, co-founder of TestFairy, Sauce Labs mobile beta testing solution, as he shares key insights on how completing your automated testing strategy with mobile app beta testing can help you address these challenges head-on. In this hands-on training session, you will learn the best practices for optimizing mobile beta testing processes, getting critical real-user feedback, and iterating mobile apps faster.

Workshop exercises will cover:

How to set up a successful mobile beta testing program
How to quickly deploy beta app versions with streamlined iOS, Android app distribution
How to find the right beta users, enable faster bug reporting, and boost test insights
How to utilize video recordings and in-app feedback to uncover quality issues faster
How to create faster feedback loops for developers to improve mean time to resolution

Learning Outcomes:

Improve release velocity and mobile app quality by utilizing meaningful feedback and validation with real-world users.
Shorten your mobile app development and release cycles with faster feedback loops, actionable bug reports, and user behavior insights in your SDLC.
Maximize your automated testing strategy by combining it with mobile app beta testing.

Workshop Prerequisites

Access to an Android Device
If you don’t have an Android phone handy, you can sign up for a Sauce Labs free trial to access our Real Device Cloud

Workshop Leader
Yair Bar-On
Director of Product – TestFairy, Sauce Labs

Test in Production: Getting Started with Mobile Crash and Error Reporting (1 hour | Intermediate)

Finding and fixing mobile app errors is a team sport. Errors and crashes are identified throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by teams or users themselves. However, capturing relevant error and crash data, prioritizing user-impacting application issues, and creating faster feedback loops to help developers triage app errors, are often the biggest challenges teams face in achieving faster detection and resolution of mobile app errors.

In his workshop, Vincent Lussenburg, Technical Product Manager for Backtrace at Sauce Labs, will provide you hands-on training on mobile crash and error reporting and let you experience its value first-hand to drastically reduce the mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR). You will integrate Error Reporting into a sample Android or iOS apps, submit crashes, errors, and hangs for analysis, customize the system with indexed attributes, and create some saved views to support useful collaboration.

Workshop exercises will cover:

Understanding the functional and technical differences between errors hangs, memory problems, and crashes
How to add error and crash collection to your mobile app
How to use (custom) error reports, error-free sessions, and user metrics to prioritize issues that need your attention
Understanding how obfuscating and native code requires unmangling and symbolication
How to debug issues faster by using call stacks, thread dumps, attributes, and breadcrumbs (without the need to download minidump and crash files)

Learning Outcomes:

Learn how adopting the best-in-class error & crash reporting can help you:

Capture, prioritize, and resolve issues across the software lifecycle: in development, in beta, and in production.
Roll out new features with confidence by ensuring crash-free statistics are at the right level before a full release.
Quickly respond to top instability errors, before they impact more users.

Workshop Prerequisites

The ability to build an Android or iOS app using Xcode, Android Studio or another IDE
A Backtrace instance
- If you don’t have one, sign up for a trial at http://register.backtrace.io/
The ability to deploy to a real device since crash reporting for emulators works differently
- If you don’t have access to a real device, you can sign up for a Sauce Labs free trial at https://saucelabs.com/sign-up

Workshop Leader
Vincent Lussenburg
Technical Product Manager – Backtrace, Sauce Labs

Testing for Good
Net proceeds from tickets sales for this workshop will go to support Kika and Dream Doctors.

API Testing & Monitoring

3.5 hours | Intermediate

In this 2-part workshop, learn how to shorten test cycles with data-driven API test automation, supplement or replace UI testing with API test automation, and transform test cases with API testing.
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API Testing & Monitoring (3.5 hours | Intermediate)

In this 2-part workshop, learn how to shorten test cycles with data-driven API test automation, supplement or replace UI testing with API test automation, and transform test cases with API testing.

This Old Test Framework: Improving your test automation approaches using UI, API and Unit testing (2 Hours | Intermediate)

Testing software applications at the UI level is helpful but has drawbacks. Sometimes, tests that may seem to rely on the entire application can be tested at lower levels, such as the application code level and service/API level. In this workshop we’ll walk through different test scenarios and how they can be adapted from end-to-end/UI tests to other approaches that are faster, more stable, and more efficient.

This workshop will be divided into three main sections:

Replacing a UI test with a unit test
Replacing a UI test with a service/API test
Using APIs in UI tests to set state

From this workshop, attendees will:

See examples of unit, API, and UI level automated tests
Understand how to replace UI tests with API tests and unit tests
Understand how APIs can assist in making better UI automation

Workshop Prerequisites

Sauce login for each participant
Java JDK 11 or higher
Android Studio (download here)
Knowledge of Git (a GitHub account is helpful but not required)
Knowledge of automated testing tools (Selenium, Appium, JUnit) is helpful but not required
Knowledge of unit and API testing is useful but not required

Workshop Leader
Josh Grant
Manager, Solution Architects, Sauce Labs

Discover and Close All API Quality Gaps in Any SDLC (1.5 Hours | Intermediate)

Shorter release cycles and increased microservices have made quality-at-speed and SLA compliance more challenging for development, QA/QE, SRE and testing Centers of Excellence. Too often, testing is a bottleneck, testing fails to stop bugs from reaching production, and testing dashboards do not give managers deep visibility into the runtime and historic health of APIs.

In this workshop, Sauce Labs engineers, Julian Vargas and Sangit Patel, will walk attendees through solving API quality gaps in DESIGN, BUILD, TEST, DEPLOYMENT and MONITORING stages.

Workshop exercises will cover:

DESIGN and BUILD: Learn how to build Quality into your API Design and Builds by extending OpenAPI spec files with highly usable mocks and spec-based contract testing.
TEST: Learn how to streamline functional and integration (multi-step API flow) testing with highly scalable API test automation that leverages automated test generation and other helpful features. Also earn how to collaborate more efficiently on API tests within teams and across different teams. This lesson concludes with best practices for data-driving API functional and integration tests.
DEPLOYMENT: Learn how to automate regression testing during a CI/CD pipeline. Instructors will show you how to keep API test non-flaky throughout rapid code and database changes that may not have propogated yet to the CI/CD platform.
MONITORING: Learn about the critical differences between the different types of API monitoring: Uptime, Functional Uptime and Performance Monitoring. See how reusing API tests as monitors in any environment (including production) can significantly reduce risk and maintain optimal reliability and SLA performance.
Ending Q&A: Attendees are invited to bring their use cases or issues for hands-on workshopping on how to solve.

Outline

Introduction
Survey Report Analysis
Design and Build
Test
Deployment
Monitoring
Q&A

Learning Outcomes:

Reduce risk as early as design with API mocking and contract testing
Shorten test cycles and reduce rollbacks with data-driven API test automation that captures real world scenarios
Supplement or replace UI testing with API test automation: eliminate time-consuming UI test cases with instant API test results
Transform the reliability and SLA performance of internal, partner and open APIs with next-generation API monitoring
Ensure more effective continuous improvement by giving managers insights into historic trends for API quality throughout the SDLC

Workshop Prerequisites

You have an active Sauce Labs account and log in successfully, or sign up for a free trial.
You have set up SauceConnect on your computer by successfully executing Step 2 in Sauce Labs | Tunnel Proxies. As an alternative, you can use ngrok instead of SauceConnect
You have installed Deno on your computer. This means you can successfully execute `$ $HOME/.deno/bin/deno run https://deno.land/std/examples/welcome.ts`
You have Git installed in your computer

Workshop Leaders
Julian Vargas
Engineering Manager, Sauce Labs

Sangit Patel
Senior Solutions Engineer, Sauce Labs

Testing for Good
Net proceeds from tickets sales for this workshop will go to support the Ukrainian Crisis Fund and the Thunder Woman Healing Lodge.

Run Your Tests Anywhere

4 hours | Beginner

This workshop will show you great foundations and concepts to run tests in Docker, which you will learn through practical exercises. We will go in detail through the process of putting a test suite in Docker, and cover common pitfalls and best practices to build good Docker images and run stable Docker containers in different environments.
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Run Your Tests Anywhere (4 hours | Basic)

Do you have a few JavaScript or Java tests and you need your colleague to run them for you? Oh, they don’t have Node or Java installed? What to do? Docker is the solution!

Run your tests on your laptop, on your colleague’s laptop, run them on a local or a remote Continuous Integration server (CI). Combine Docker with your tests to avoid the dependency hell and enable anyone, anywhere to run them. Docker is commonly seen as a tool to package and deploy applications to different environments, but it is very useful in testing frontend and backend applications.

Putting your tests inside a Docker image can be daunting at the beginning, but a basic understanding of how Docker works, how to create Docker images and run Docker containers will enable us to run our tests anywhere.

This workshop will show you great foundations and concepts to run tests (and potentially any application) in Docker, which you will learn through practical exercises. We will go in detail through the process of putting a test suite in Docker, from creating the Docker image and running it locally to the point where we run our tests on a complete new CI. We will cover the common pitfalls when using Docker and best practices to build good Docker images and run stable Docker containers in different environments.

Outline

Introduction and quick environment check
Docker introduction
Introduction to our testing application (to be used along the workshop)
Putting the application in Docker and running it, as a practical exercise
Writing a few tests to test our sample application and using Docker to run them inside a container
Run multiple Docker containers via docker-compose to test our application in different environments
Running tests in a continuous integration pipeline
Wrap up

Learning Outcomes

Get insights on how an application can be containerized to make testing easier
Scale-up test suites by running them in parallel and in different environment combinations
Orchestrate multiple Docker containers to simplify test setup and execution
Integrate the different elements from the training to build test setups that fit better your web application testing needs
Identify and put together all the moving pieces of the test setup to facilitate the configuration of a continuous integration pipeline

Workshop Prerequisites

Know how to run command-line tools from your workstation (Linux/Windows/macOS)
Basic programming knowledge and automation testing concepts
A Sauce Labs account (if you don’t already have an account, sign up for a free trial here: https://saucelabs.com/sign-up)

Technical Setup

Desired: A GitHub and a GitPad account (GitPod account can be created by signing in with your GitHub account)
- You will be able to follow the whole workshop just by using your browser.
Optional: (if you want to follow the workshop on your own laptop)
- Latest Docker installed: Windows, macOS, Linux
- A good IDE (VSCode or IntelliJ)

Workshop Leader
Diego Molina
Staff Software Engineer, Sauce Labs

Testing for Good
Net proceeds from ticket sales for this workshop will go to support Cigarra.

Accelerate Your Agile Journey with Low-code Test Automation

3 hours | Beginner

Low code test automation makes it possible for anyone (business users, product owners, manual testers, etc.) to learn how to create and execute automated tests with no programming knowledge. In this workshop, users will get access to the AutonomIQ Sauce Labs Low Code Solution and learn all the steps needed to create end-to-end tests.
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Comprehensive Testing with JavaScript

4 hours | Intermediate

In this workshop you will learn the latest and greatest tools and techniques to improve your ability to test modern web applications.
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Crafting a Test Framework

4 hours | Advanced

In this workshop, learn how to leverage your framework to minimize flakiness and make it easier to update test code only when needed. We’ll walk through testing a sample real-world application focusing on how each of the components work together.
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Workshops at SauceCon Online 2022

Mobile App Testing

4 hours | Intermediate

Mobile App Testing (4 hours | Intermediate)

Automating Hybrid Applications with Appium (2 hours | Intermediate)

Optimizing Mobile App Distribution and Beta Testing (1 hour | Intermediate)

Test in Production: Getting Started with Mobile Crash and Error Reporting (1 hour | Intermediate)

API Testing & Monitoring

3.5 hours | Intermediate

API Testing & Monitoring (3.5 hours | Intermediate)

This Old Test Framework: Improving your test automation approaches using UI, API and Unit testing (2 Hours | Intermediate)

Discover and Close All API Quality Gaps in Any SDLC (1.5 Hours | Intermediate)

Run Your Tests Anywhere

4 hours | Beginner

Run Your Tests Anywhere (4 hours | Basic)

Accelerate Your Agile Journey with Low-code Test Automation

3 hours | Beginner

Accelerate Your Agile Journey with Low-code Test Automation (3 Hours | Beginner)

Comprehensive Testing with JavaScript

4 hours | Intermediate

Comprehensive Testing with JavaScript (4 hours | Intermediate)

Crafting a Test Framework

4 hours | Advanced

Crafting a Test Framework (4 hours | Advanced)

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