May 20, 2026

SQGNE Lecture is tonight! Building a React Native Mobile Automated Test Framework with T.J. Maher

Are you in Boston? Come hear me talk about Building a a React Native Mobile Automated Test Framework in tonight's Software Quality Group of New England meeting in Burlington, MA:
Taken from the Registration page:

"Building a React Native Mobile Automated Test Framework
Thomas F. - T.J. - Maher, Jr.

"Wednesday May 20, 2025 6:30-8:00 PM - in person (free pizza!)
Register Here

"Check in between 6:00 and 6:30 to network

"About the Presentation. . .

"Writing automated tests for a React Native mobile application is notoriously difficult. Mobile components display on the page, but are not fully loaded. Lengthy animations and slow-loading components take a while to finish. Timing issues cause your automated tests to error out giving the appearance of flaky tests.

"Thomas F. - T.J. - Maher, Jr. will be sharing his experience tackling these problems using the open-source mobile testing framework, Wix's Detox, designed specifically for testing React Native applications.

  • "Setting up a mobile test automation framework.
  • "Vibe-coding a toy React Mobile Login page app to test against ( tinyurl.com/detox-demo ).
  • "How to reduce timing issues and flakiness in automated tests.
  • "Refactoring code into tests, page objects & base pages, separating out credentials and message strings for easier maintainability.
  • "Setting up automated tests in CI / CD for iOS simulators and Android emulators with GitHub Action Workflows.
  • "How developers can test their code before they push it into the main branch".

About the Speaker. . .

"A former organizer of Ministry of Testing - Boston, Thomas (T.J.) Maher is a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) based in the Boston/South Shore area of Massachusetts, with a decade of experience building web + mobile test automation frameworks. His recent work includes architecting a mobile automation framework from the ground up using Detox and TypeScript for a React Native application at SELF ID, a decentralized identity startup. Prior roles include MassMutual, Verily (Google), Threat Stack, Fitbit, and Intralinks".

See you there!


Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
Software Engineer in Test

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