LogiGear CTO to Address Attendees at Great Wide Open Conference

FOSTER CITY, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 8, 2016) - LogiGear, a world leader in software testing solutions, today announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Hans Buwalda, will be a guest speaker at the Great Wide Open Conference, scheduled for March 16-17^th in at the Georgia Tech Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hans is a pioneer of the keyword approach to testing and automation, widely used today throughout the industry. He is a frequent speaker and is lead author of the book Integrated Test Design and Automation. 

Hans will address conference attendees first on Wednesday, March 16^th at 11:30 am in the Back End Development track. His presentation "Integration Testing with Selenium" will survey Selenium as the open-source gold standard for web-based testing. Hans will also address attendees on Thursday, March 17^th at 1:35 pm in the Architecture and Testing track and will lead a discussion called "Testing Integration with Selenium, A Tutorial."

Testing individual functions in an application is a straightforward process with Selenium. However, tests can become hard to design, manage, and maintain in a complex application when integration testing starts, and this is even further compounded when small changes in an application can easily break many of the tests. Instead of viewing this as a technical problem, one should focus on seeing it as a design challenge. Hans will discuss the best practices for test design-driven automation, and how domain language based approaches, like ABT (Action Based Testing with Action Words) and BDD (Behavior Driven Development), can serve as a basis for large comprehensive test collections that are easy to manage and maintain, for both the short and long term. 

Corporate open source use is now at an all time high; it has doubled in the last 5 years to 78%, and is growing every day. Great Wide Open brings together top technologists, and decision makers to explore open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Great Wide Open, a conference hosted in association with Opensource.com, is aimed at UI/UX designers, front end and back end developers, DevOps, and cloud specialists, operations specialists and those wanting to know more about Open source.

For additional information about the conference, visit greatwideopen.org. For more information about testing solutions, and the full range of software testing and development services provided by LogiGear, please visit LogiGear.com.

About LogiGear

LogiGear Corporation (http://www.logigear.com) provides leading-edge software testing technologies and expertise, along with software development services that enable companies to accelerate business growth while having confidence in the software they deliver. Founded in 1994 by top thought leaders in the software testing industry, LogiGear has completed software testing and development projects for prominent companies across a broad range of industries and technologies.