Do you even need to automate the GUI?
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The document discusses the necessity and implications of automating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), emphasizing the importance of setting clear, practical goals instead of vague aspirations. It outlines strategies for improving software quality through practices like test-driven development and continuous integration, which allow for efficient and swift deployment processes. The overarching message highlights the synergy between human insight and machine assistance in achieving optimal testing and development outcomes.
Do you even need to automate the GUI?
- 1. Do You Even (Need) To Automate (The GUI)? Matt Heusser 2017 Edition
- 2. The Great Lifting Irony
- 3. Setting Goals VAPID goals: Vague Amorphous Pie in the sky Irrelevant Delayed
- 4. Setting Goals VAPID goals: Vague Amorphous Pie in the sky Irrelevant Delayed
- 9. What are estimates for?Five-Minute Provisioning What about: * Continuous Integration yields builds * Create a test environment for a given build on-demand * Self-service * Within 5 minutes
- 10. What are estimates for?Unit Tests - Test Driven Development • Measure Twice, Cut Once • Higher First-Time Quality • Less Regressions • Small, easy to separate components • … but we can’t • That is a design problem • TDD Enables good design
- 11. What are estimates for?Unit Tests - Test Driven Development
- 12. What are estimates for?Unit Tests - Test Driven Development
- 13. What are estimates for?Unit Tests - Test Driven Development
- 14. What are estimates for?Unit Tests - Test Driven Development
- 15. What are estimates for?Isolated Components and Service Contracts
- 16. What are estimates for?Deploy by Component Why deploy the entire app when you can: - Deploy a single web service? - Deploy a single web page? - Deploy a single PHP file?
- 18. Right Project 90% Right Story Right Design Right Code Right Testing Right Deploys Improve First-Time Quality
- 19. Right Project 90% Right Requirements 90% Right Design 90% Right Code 90% Right Testing 90% Right Deploys 90% Improve First-Time Quality
- 20. Activity FTQ Cumulative Right Project 90% 90% Right Requirements 90% 81% Right Design 90% 73% Right Code 90% 66% Right Testing 90% 59% Right Deploys 90% 53% Improve First-Time Quality
- 21. Activity FTQ Cumulative Right Project 80% 80% Right Requirements 80% 64% Right Design 80% 51% Right Code 80% 41% Right Testing 80% 33% Right Deploys 80% 26% Improve First-Time Quality
- 22. Activity FTQ Cumulative Right Project 70% 70% Right Requirements 70% 49% Right Design 70% 34% Right Code 70% 24% Right Testing 70% 17% Right Deploys 70% 12% Improve First-Time Quality
- 23. Putting it all together Deploys are local / micro Test environments are easy to create Serious problems are rare Found quickly local And easy to roll back
- 24. Putting it all together What problems does mass-inspection GUI Automation solve? Do we have them anymore? … Do you even need to automate the GUI? Deploys are local / micro Regression-Testing can be triaged Serious problems are rare Found quickly local And easy to roll back
- 25. The Great Lifting Irony
- 26. Solution: Tool Assisted Testing Combine human and machine for the best attributes of each