Atomic Talk Title: An Insight into PDF automation strategy

II want to discuss the automation of PDFs, or known as Portable Document Format. PDFs are an extremely popular file format for sharing information across businesses of all sizes. We encounter PDFs in contracts, reports, legal documents, press releases, and more. PDFs can be static or dynamic, depending on their use. Given their widespread usage, it’s essential to have a focused strategy for testing them. In some domains, such as banking, the number of PDFs to be verified can be extensive, often reaching into the hundreds or more. This is where automation becomes crucial. However, testing PDFs presents a unique challenge: unlike web pages, PDFs don’t have locators, making them difficult to test.

In this session, we will address this problem. We’ll outline a comprehensive testing strategy based on the test pyramid, explore available open-source tools, discuss their advantages and limitations, and go through demo code to understand the implementation. By the end of this session, you will have a complete test automation strategy for PDFs.

Talk Takeaways

• Focus on strategising the automation plan w.r.t test pyramid. So that we understand automation layers/structure first. Once thats done, tools will be discussed.
• Focus will be open source tools. So that each participant can learn, play without worry about licenses. And contribute as community.
• Access to demo code base to learn the implementation with ease.
• Learn about limitations. A complete automation strategy which will make PDF testing faster, reliable and robust.