On the 9th of October 2018, the fully independent, punk, Leeds Testing Atelier returns at the amazing Wharf Chambers for a day of learning, collaboration and laughs!

Check out our fabulous line up of speakers! We love them!

Robyn Daulby From Lazy to Junior to Tester - My Testing Journey Lows and Highs Hey, Im Robyn! I’m a Junior Test Analyst working at AO.com. I’ve been testing for a little over a year now and taking a leap of faith and changing my career was the best thing I ever did. I’m very passionate about what I do and I hope that people see my openness and honesty when they talk to me or read my blogs. Ever since I attended my first conference I’ve absolutely loved the testing community, it’s so inclusive! I think you can really get a lot from attending events, even if it’s just a new friend, and I want to be one of those people that helps others on their journey. I may be new to this but a new perspective can often be a good one. I hate thinking that there could be other people struggling and worrying they’re alone with their lows in testing. It could literally just take one person to open up and be honest about their struggles for them to realise they are not alone! I want to be that person and help others the way the community has helped me. When I’m not working I’m all about going to concerts, eating good food, obsessing over my niece, drinking gin and visiting my boyfriend in Scotland. Various combinations of all the above! I have always been a terrible student, when I was in full time education I was always doing ‘Just enough’ to get by, I was basically lazy and just wanted an easy life. But now that I’m older and in a job I love, I strive to be better. But I still have those times when the lazy in me comes out or I get disheartened and then I want to hide away. I’ve had to work really had to keep myself on track. Being relatively new to testing this talk will be about my journey and to show some of the lows and highs that I’ve had whilst I’ve been learning to test. One of the lows I had was not understanding the terminology being used around me, it sounds incredibly daft to say that something so simple to me now was a low point. It will show how along the way I’ve had to overcome failures, my inner lazy and picking myself up when I’m disheartened. I will talk about my highs as well, public speaking being my main one, never in a million years did I think I would stand in front of a room full of people and talk, but here I am writing an Abstract to do another talk. Major high. I want people to take away two main things with this talk. Firsty, to new testers, who could be having similar lows to me, I want them to know that they’re not alone! Its okay to fail, it’s how we learn. It’s okay to have down time, we can’t constantly be learning and that’s okay! And then to the more established tester, I hope to enlighten them to some struggles that others may be having without them realising. @RobynTests

Lewis Prescott Contract Tests vs Functional Tests in a World of Squads I am currently a QA Engineer at Asos, formerly of 'The Test People' based in the Leeds office. I have a variety of experience at different organisations, usually forming opinions on automation and the best way to adopt it. I currently love writing unit tests and getting involved in testability discussions with my colleagues. I teach coding (python) at a local school in Camden, London. I mentor an intern and another QA here at ASOS. I love to teach and learn from others. Asos is a large organisation which has grown significantly over the past few years. This had meant layers of management and teams spawning out of nowhere. I want to discuss my journey of implementing Pact (Contract Testing Framework) in a large organisation. The challenges I faced during the process and the lessons learnt including the technical Part: Setting up the framework in C#, people part: Getting buy in from the wider team and consumers part: Gettting buy in from the wider business. @WuigPrescott

Ady Stokes Accessibility, Assumptions and Arguments I've been in and around testing through audit activities since the mid-1990s and involved in testing and software development since 2005. I blog, although not often enough, at thebigtestheory.com and have spoken at Leeds Tester Gathering, Agile Yorkshire, Leeds Testing Atelier and at work where I have also run workshops. I've had positive feedback on my talks but am always happy to hear things to make me improve. There is a massive assumption in software development that accessibility = disability. I'll dispel that myth with information, examples and practical tips of how our assumptions are potentially costing us customers, making interactions harder and that the whole population has accessibility 'issues' with the applications we are building. @CricketRulz

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