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Managing Successful Test Automation

Abstract

Many organizations never achieve the significant benefits that are promised from automated test execution tools. What are the secrets to test automation success? There are no secrets, but the paths to success are not commonly understood. Dorothy and Mark describe the most important automation issues that you must address, both management and technical, and help you understand and choose the best approaches for your organization—no matter which automation tools you use.


Audience

This workshop is aimed at managers who need to understand the key issues in making test automation successful. Technical issues are covered at a high level of understanding; there are no tool demos!

Duration

1 day Workshop


Course Outline

  • Planning and Managing Test Automation
    • Responsibilities, objectives, pilot projects and implementation, measures and Return on Investment
  • Testware Architecture
    • The importance of a good testware architecture, and whatneeds to be organised
  • Pre- and Post-Processing
    • Automating more than tests, and test statuses beyond Pass/Fail
  • Scripting Techniques
    • Objectives of scripting, different scripting levels including data-driven and keyword-driven / Domain-Specific Test Language
  • Automated Comparison
    • Options and pitfalls in automated comparison
  • Final Advice and Direction
    • Test Automation Strategy

You will leave this tutorial with a list of your own automation objectives (which should be different to test objectives), and a start on your automation strategy.


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