Shifting (UI) Tests to the Far Left

Georgios Sotiropoulos

⏱ 180-min-workshop
intermediate
advanced
10:00-13:00, Wednesday, 22nd May 2024
Writing specs is a hard problem, with insufficient/hidden specs and people communication flaws being the two most common problems in requirements engineering. In this talk we will examine how, and under what conditions, tests can be considered as specs and how shifting them to the far left could remove a lot of the complexity mobile teams face.

🏷 UI tests
🏷 specifications
🏷 software verification
🏷 shift to the left

Georgios Sotiropoulos

Georgios Sotiropoulos is from Athens, where he works as head of the mobile team at XM. Before leading the team, he had over 9 years of experience as a mobile software engineer with a focus on Swift, iOS and all kinds of software verification methodologies. He strongly believes in strong static type systems and other things that constraint our imagination.