Breakpoint 2020
as the organisers put it
A 4-day virtual summit on everything testing. From QA leaders at Twitter and Trivago to core contributors at Selenium, Robot Framework and more, Breakpoint 2020 brings you lessons on shipping fast—without breaking things.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Basics of Robot Framework | Pekka Klärck | 34m |
Shows concrete Robot Framework syntax for constructing tests from keywords, demonstrates a working web login test using SeleniumLibrary (runs via the robot… | ||
| How the best deliver Quality at Speed | Praveen Umanath | 20m |
BrowserStack shows measured practices that let teams “move fast and not break things”: platform telemetry from 25,000+ teams and 2 million users running 72… | ||
| Modern automation approaches | Priyanka Halder | 55m |
GoodRx builds a CI-driven automation stack that actually scales: a Next‑Gen SWAT framework using Selenium + BrowserStack, Jenkins/Travis, Applitools visual… | ||
| Automating visual testing with Percy | Mike Fotinakis | 51m |
Automates visual regression checks by sending DOM snapshots (not heavy images) to a rendering farm that parallelizes rendering (hundreds/100 at a time)… | ||
| Transforming testing methodologies: From manual to robust strategies | Todd Eaton | 53m |
Team moves from manual UI checks to a hybrid Selenium framework plus Jenkins pipelines, BrowserStack (plus Percy for visual diffs), TestRail and Grafana… | ||
| Technology constraints drive automation | Lawrence Mandel | 54m |
Shopify standardizes on Rails + React + GraphQL, a monolith that enforces constraints to drive automation and quality. Company tools include services_db… | ||
| Firefox and the push for simpler cross browser testing | Maja Frydrychowicz | 25m |
Firefox implements parts of Chrome DevTools Protocol so Puppeteer can automate it today (launch with product=firefox), downloading a nightly and running… | ||
| Testing for products with a microservice architecture | Nupur Pallavi, Omose Ogala | 54m |
Twitter builds a decentralized web test framework called webtf on TestCafe, publishes versioned component libraries via npm, and wires in BrowserStack and… | ||
| Welcome and Keynote | Ritesh Arora | 14m |
Announces Breakpoint 2020 as a global virtual summit with 10,000+ registrations from 115 countries and a 17‑session lineup, and claims BrowserStack now hosts 3… | ||
| After the audit: Integrating accessibility into the testing process | Crystal Preston-Watson | 52m |
Audit results and a VPAT become artifacts to drive ongoing testing not an endpoint: map audit findings into regression tickets, add linters and CI checks, run… | ||
| How to win in software development with tighter feedback loops | Brian Lucas | 47m |
Engineering teams measure a Build Pain Index = median build time ÷ build success rate to justify tooling and cut developer wait time; a 300-commit week with 30… | ||
| WebdriverIO: The next-gen automation test framework you should know about | Kevin Lamping | 44m |
WebdriverIO presents itself as a full‑featured Node.js test framework that runs Mocha/Jasmine/Cucumber, supports mobile via Appium and cloud providers like… | ||
| How we reconstructed our releases at Trivago | Benjamin Bischoff | 53m |
Trivago rebuilds release quality by putting QA in charge of end‑to‑end tests, running ~300 Cucumber scenarios with a homegrown troopy Java framework using… | ||
| Build vs. Buy: The enterprise software conundrum | Abesh Rajasekharan | 48m |
Thomson Reuters needs faster time to market for Checkpoint Edge and finds its legacy QA won’t scale with a cloud‑native, microservice architecture, so the team… | ||
| The URL that will change testing and QA forever | Guillermo Rauch | 49m |
Claim: a deploy URL per PR—generated by Vercel from a GitHub push—lets teams run real production-like tests (HTTPS, edge CDN, cached builds) for every branch… | ||
| Beyond WebDriver! | David Burns | 33m |
WebDriver moves from request/response to a persistent, event-driven protocol called WebDriver BiDi that opens a WebSocket JSON‑RPC‑ish channel so tests can… | ||
| Automating to augment testing | Alan Richardson | 51m |
Shows a practical pattern: write randomized model-based tests that exhaust equivalence partitions for a six‑page registration form so a 10‑minute run finds two… | ||
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