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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">SQAUG Presents: The Importance of Abstraction in Automation Projects</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2015-05-20T17:30:00" datetime="2015-05-20T17:30:00">Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from 5:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2015-05-20T19:30:00" datetime="2015-05-20T19:30:00">7:30pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202392943'><span class='fn org p-name'>Con-Way</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">2055 NW Savier St</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2055%20NW%20Savier%20St,%20Portland%20OR%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>SQAUG Presents:</p> <p>The Importance of Abstraction in Automation Projects at Con-Way 2055 NW Savier, Portland, OR 97209 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 5:30pm until 7:30pm</p> <p>Event is FREE and Open to the Public</p> <p>The majority of automation projects fail, most within the first 6-12 months. Initially it’s easy to put something together that works for a small number of test cases, but as the application evolves, the troubleshooting/maintenance needs of the tests quickly overcome the ability of the team. Eventually (around 6-12 months) a new engineer takes over and restarts the automation effort in a new direction, often with the same issues.</p> <p>This presentation will be focused on how to use the OOP concept of Abstraction to reduce the maintenance costs of automation and extend the life of your frameworks. Additional benefits will be discussed, like the ability to change the Automation Technology without rebuilding all your tests.</p> <p>These concepts will work with 3rd party automation products like QTP as well as homegrown frameworks. You will get the most value from abstraction when its added at the beginning of the projects, but we will discuss how they can be leverages in larger, existing frameworks. Level: Intermediate. Knowledge of automation concepts along with some basic understanding of development practices will be assumed.</p> <p>All code examples will be shown in C#, but the concepts will apply to any tool or language.</p> <p>Supporting Material <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS550US550&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Why+software+automation+fails">https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS550US550&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Why+software+automation+fails</a></p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_science%29#Abstraction_in_object_oriented_programming">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_science%29#Abstraction_in_object_oriented_programming</a></p> <p>About our speaker: Michael Cowan is a Principal QA Engineer at Viewpoint Construction Software. He has over 20 years’ experience in the software industry, and has held individual and management roles in both QA and Development. His passions have always been automation, and he has been a lead engineer on several successful automation frameworks.</p> <p>Agenda: 5:30-6:00PM: Pizza and Networking 6:00-6:15PM: SQAUG Announcements 6:15-7:30PM: Presentation/Q&A</p> <p>Details: · Event is Free to the public · Onsite parking (directions below) · Light Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served · No RSVP is required to attend</p> <p>SQAUG is Portland/Vancouver area’s only Software Quality Assurance User Group! We are in our 3rd year and would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone who would like to participate in a user group dedicated to growing the Quality Assurance field.</p> <p>SQAUG is made up of a group of SQA professionals who have banded together in an open forum to learn from each other through a series of interactive discussions, engaged debates, training presentations, exploring tools, and general networking and sharing of job opportunities. Our goals are to expand knowledge about Software Quality to all professionals who are passionate about their careers, and take Software Quality seriously.</p> <p>For more on SQAUG: <a href="http://www.sqaug.org/">http://www.sqaug.org/</a> Meetup: SQAUGPDX Linked in: SQAUG</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://sqaug.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>