Future of Testing, Test Automation and The Quality Analyst
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The document discusses the future of testing, automation, and the role of quality analysts in software development. Key topics include continuous integration, test automation frameworks, and the importance of adapting testing strategies to evolving technologies and user interfaces. It emphasizes the need for high-value automation, maintaining code quality, and the changing roles of quality analysts in various organizational structures.
Future of Testing, Test Automation and The Quality Analyst
- 1. Future of Tes+ng, Test Automa+on & The Quality Analyst Anand Bagmar So#ware Quality Evangelist Principal Consultant,
- 3. What do you expect from this session?
- 4. Evolu+on
- 5. One thing that is THE SAME
- 6. OrganizaCon ObjecCve Time Quality Money / Value
- 7. Media
- 8. Past
- 9. Present
- 10. Future?
- 11. User Interface
- 12. Past
- 13. Present
- 14. Present
- 15. Future?
- 16. Future?
- 17. Future?
- 18. Future?
- 19. Graphics
- 20. Past
- 21. Present
- 22. Present
- 23. Future?
- 24. Games
- 25. Past
- 26. Present
- 27. Present
- 28. Portable Devices
- 29. Past
- 30. Past
- 31. Past
- 32. Present
- 33. Present
- 34. Present
- 35. Present
- 36. Future?
- 37. Content
- 38. Past
- 39. Past
- 40. Present
- 41. Future?
- 42. SpaCal operaCng environment SpaCal OperaCng Environment Professor John Underkoffler -‐ MIT
- 43. Pranav Mistry Sixth Sense Technology hEp://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
- 48. Which life are we living?
- 49. What does this mean from a Tes+ng Perspec+ve?
- 50. What do we need to do next?
- 51. Think big!!
- 52. Test AutomaCon A Safety Net
- 53. Con+nuous Integra+on (CI) and Con+nuous Design and Delivery is NOT Op+onal
- 54. Test Frameworks
- 55. What is next? Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Custom Frameworks Record & Playback Core Framework
- 56. FuncConal Tests (GUI) Web Service Tests View Tests JavaScript Tests IntegraCon tests Unit Tests Test AutomaTon Pyramid Manual / Exploratory TesTng Impact on Product under test Ideal Test Pyramid Business-‐ facing Tests Technology-‐ facing Tests • Cost • Effort • Time
- 57. 1st candidate • Automate! • High Value, Low Cost 2nd candidate • Automate! • High Value, High Cost Can Automate? • Manual Regression? • Low Value, Low Cost Do Not Automate • Manual Regression! • Low Value, High Cost High Value High Cost Low Value Low Cost
- 58. Principles of Test AutomaCon Framework
- 59. Test Automa+on Code should be treated with same ‘respect’ as Product Code
- 60. Principles for building an Automa+on Framework Code Quality Design PaUerns Abstrac+on Layers Refactor Pairing Evolve Extend
- 61. Guidelines for building an Automa+on Framework Easy to Use & Reuse Maintainable Scalable Browser / DB / OS / ?? support Known Restric+ons / Constraints Local Vs Remote Parallel Execu+on
- 62. Prac+ces for building an Automa+on Framework Configurable Con+nuous Integra+on (CI) Screenshots, Video Recording Logging Tools & U+li+es Test Data No Copy-‐Paste
- 63. Context is KING! Domain Product-‐ under-‐test Tech Stack Team DistribuCon Skills Capability Process Test Tech Stack Tools
- 64. Automate tests that are valuable, not because you can or like to automate!
- 65. Different Roles & AcCviCes of a Quality Analyst
- 67. QA Role Product Services
- 68. QA Role in Product OrganizaCons Co-‐located Distributed
- 69. QA Role in Services OrganizaCons Coaching Off-‐Shore Delivery ConsulCng DevOps On-‐Site Delivery
- 70. What is the Future of a Quality Analyst?
- 75. Be Crea+ve
- 78. Making an Idea a Reality Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards
- 79. Who are you? Where do you want to be?
- 80. abagmar@gmail.com Anand.Bagmar@thoughtworks.com @BagmarAnand about.me/anand.bagmar Thank you