This is a presentation I gave at ATTAC in Melbourne on Friday 24th May 2019. The full Google Slides are available here.


Outside of work I enjoy hiking, often to the summits of mountains, and spending time with my wife and our three young kids.

This of course made my trial project a lot more difficult than I had originally thought as I had to teach myself Node.js and understand what testing tools existed in this space.
Fast forward to 2019 and earlier this year I decided to change jobs as I could no longer travel for work. When I started looking at job advertisements for testing and QE positions in Brisbane I noticed just how many mentioned Node.js as their technology stack of choice: in the 3.5 years at Automattic Node.js had become increasingly popular at other companies as well.

It’s slightly better in 2019 than 2015, however there are some reasons why it’s hard.

My aim today is to create some clarity in this space.
















