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Venice Carnival Workshop - one or two day option

This one day or two day workshop will guide you to getting fantastic images of Venice Carnival and the city itself. Starting at 8am to catch the early morning light and before the crowds build we will start with going through settings and equipment together with ideas for composition of images. We will then head in to St Marks Square and the lagoon front area for a session shooting the many carnival characters- some free time will also be given.  We then will proceed from St Marks Square to the Rialto area where we will have time for lunch (not included) and a debrief on the morning's activities. With it's bustling market and of course the fantastic Grand Canal and Rialto bridge this area is a vibrant and interesting location and again full instruction will be given on making the most of the opportunity.  We then head in to lesser known and quieter areas of Venice where we will look for some atmospheric images of the wonderful architecture and expect to meet up with more carnival characters in a more relaxed locations before heading back towards the St Marks's square area in time to capture the later afternoon and early evening light as it glances across the fantastic architecture and carnival characters. The workshop will conclude at around 6pm when you can then capture Venice in the evening, at night or do whatever you wish. Following the course, you will receive a full set of notes, hints and tips together with a link to view the images taken by the tutor, plus you can submit your images (up to 10) for a critique by the tutor withing 14 days. If you have booked the two day workshop this covers the same format as this course on the first day but then moves on to capture more of Venice and the beatiful islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello on the second day. again concluding back in St Mark's square around 6pm.

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Advanced Automated Testing with Selenium and Appium

The aim of the course Want to become professional in front-end test automation? Or at least improve your knowledge and skills in Selenium Webdriver and to be able to create stable, mature and well-structured test set, which are easy to maintain when tested application changes? Are you interested in learning how to exploit the potential of combining Selenium with Continuous Integration environment? If yes, this is the right training for you.We will start right away with the biggest concern regarding the front-end based test automation – maintenance of the test scripts. There are several approaches and tricks to use, all combined together, they actually work very well. We will discuss the layered architecture, and we will give thorough attention to the usage of Page Object design pattern and related concepts as well as how to get the maximal power from the automated tests using data grids and effective test data combinations.The second day of the training is dedicated to the combination of automated tests with Continuous Integration environment, a configuration of the execution environment of the more extensive set of tests and advanced logging possibilities. Then, the training focuses on the test automation of mobile applications using the Selenium in combination with the Appium environment. Prerequisites Initial knowledge of Java programming language Initial knowledge of Selenium API Recommended prerequisite (but not needed, if you develop Selenium tests already): to take the course Effective Automated Testing with Selenium. Course syllabus Economics and ROI of test automation, scope selection How to reduce maintenance of the automated tests? A set of tips and tricks 3 and 4 layered Selenium test automation architecture Employment of reusable objects – advanced concepts Implementation of PageObject pattern and PageFactory Get the best power from the data grids What to feed into the data grid? Employ the efficient combinatorial testing techniques. Definition of PageComponent pattern and strategy of component implementation Implementation of ComponentFactory (using Selenium Support) Setting up DriverManager object for running tests locally and remotely Installing the Jenkins server for running tests on remote desktop Artifactory server and its implementation Integration between Jenkins and Git server Mobile automation through Appium on Android devices Implementation of Logger functionality using Log4j2 library and AspectJ Summary of quick-wins, good and wrong practices Required equipment: own notebook with an up-to-date Java development IDE supporting Maven and TestNG (IntelliJ IDEA is preferred, but other IDEs can be used as well). The rest will be installed at the beginning of the training via the Maven. Prepared automated test scripts to customize and develop during the course will be given to participants via shared web folder.

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Queen Extravaganza

The venue is cashless so card payments only. All bookings at the venue are subject to booking fees. Cobo tickets will be ready for collection from the venue box office from 16:00 on the day of the event only, unless the show begins earlier than usual when cobos will be available accordingly. Take the card used for the booking and the Ticketmaster booking reference number. Letters of Authorisation are not accepted. Duplicate tickets will only be available once the doors have opened. Customers collecting duplicate tickets will be required to enter the auditorium immediately after collecting their tickets so are not advised to collect their tickets earlier than they intend to enter the venue. Take the card used for the booking and the Ticketmaster booking reference number. Letters of authorisation are not accepted. Ticketmaster: 08448 44 47 48 Calls will cost 7 ppm plus your network access charge. Performance days: 16:00 until the event begins Non-performance days: Closed Disabled access bookings can be conducted via the venue directly via email on info@eventimapollo.com. There is an access ramp at the front of the venue and no steps into the stalls auditorium. The circle area is only accessible via at least 30 steps; there is no lift to the circle. There is a disabled access toilet at the rear of the stalls fittted with a RADAR lock. Please bring you key with you to access or speak to a member of staff.

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