Does giving a presentation via Zoom to the Sydney Testers Meetup make me an international speaker?

If I presentation to the Sydney Testers Meetup in Australia, from my home in the Massachusetts, through Zoom, does that make me an international speaker? [ Vote in the New Poll, on LinkedIn ]

There is still time to sign up for the event at: https://www.meetup.com/sydney-testers/events/315166776


"T.J. Maher, the former organiser at Ministry of Testing Boston, blogger and speaker, will be presenting from the US on using the Detox framework to create effective test automation frameworks for React Native applications.



"Building a React Mobile Automated Test Framework using Detox + TypeScript by T.J. Maher

"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.

"T.J. Maher 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 T. J. Maher:
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"A former organizer of the now defunct Ministry of Testing - Boston, T.J. Maher is a Senior 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 Health), Threat Stack, Fitbit, and Intralinks.

"T.J. Maher is @tjmaher1 on LinkedIn, Twitter and BlueSky. His software testing blog is tjmaher.com.

"Follow him on LinkedIn!"

... And I am now a Senior SDET at AAA Life Insurance!

Slide Deck is at https://tinyurl.con/detox-demo-sydney


Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
Software Engineer in Test

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