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Posted November 6, 2013

Robot Hackathon Tonight! Build Your Own Mobile Testing Robot and Other November Happenings

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Now that you ’ ve gained an hr of sleep how are you going to get the most out of that new-found clip? We can suppose of several slick case happening this month and there ’ s still plenty of clip to join in. Tonight is Sauce ’ s 2nd roving testing robot hackathon. Come build your ownTapstergolem and learn how to use it to test your iOS or Android nomadic apps. The hackathon will be held at GitHub/SF from 5:30 to 11:30 and there arestill tickets useable for builders and spectators.

Then on Thursday, November 7th there ’ s the first-everAppium San Francisco meetupat Lookout HQ in SF. Dan Cuellar, original author ofAppiumand Lead Software Engineer for the Test squad at Zoosk, will give a nimble intro, account, and glimpse into what & # x27; s coming next for Appium, and so present how to use it to automate Mac OS X coating. Felix Rodriguez and Dan Patey from Bleacher Report will then present how to mix native app test for iOS and Android devices into current test suites using CucumberSauceium. Did we mention pizza and drinks? The meetup will run from 6:30 to 8:00.

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Switch into glide and take a jaunt down highway 101 following week to check outAnDevCon 2013, the “ largest give Android conference in the population! ” The conference runs November 12-15 and Sauce will be demo ’ ing Appium and Tapster in booth 305 on Thursday the 14th and Friday the 15th. Might be a bottle of hot sauce in it for you!

Later in the month is theSan Francisco Selenium meetupat Facebook in Menlo Park. Held on Tuesday, November 19th, the topic will be “ Scaling Selenium at FB ”. Can ’ t put it any better than this: “ Facebook & # x27; s billion users feature no mind the site gets released twice a day with no user wallop. Achieving this put high demands on machine-driven testing, andSeleniumis a key part of making it all possible. ” Come listen and acquire how Facebook scaled Selenium to their sizing, FB & # x27; s new open-source PHP Selenium API, and how the company is make it easier for their engineer to publish and debug Selenium tests

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