GTAC 2009 - Fighting Layout Bugs

Google Tech Talk October 21, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Michael Tamm, optivo GmbH at the 4th Annual Google Test Automation Conference, October 21st, 22nd, 2009, Zurich, CH So you have unit tests, integration tests, and maybe even frontend tests, and you know that your web application does what it is supposed to do. But what about layout bugs? How do you ensure, that every page looks like the designers wanted it to look like? I will present several proven and some novel techniques to help you automatically check the work of your HTML and CSS programmers. I will show examples of typical layout bugs and explain which techniques can be applied to automatically detect/prevent those types of bugs in the future without human intervention. Bio: Michael Tamm currently works as System Architect at optivo. He finished his studies of computer science in 1999 and is developing enterprise web applications since then. Through the years he has specialized on quality assurance via automatic testing. Besides being a regular speaker at different computer conferences and author of several computer journal articles, he is also an active committer on the WebDriver project.