Real Testing Scenario Strategy - Bringing It All Together For Success

Real Testing Scenario Strategy:
Bringing this all together –
Success!
Presented by
Adam Sandman
Inflectra Corporation
QA Geek Week | Hertzliya, Israel, 2018

2 | 6/30/2018 QA Geek Week Conference | June 2018
About Me
 Adam Sandman was a programmer
from the age of 10 and has been
working in the IT industry for the past
20 years.
 Currently Adam is a Director of
Technology at Inflectra Corporation,
where he is interested in technology,
business and innovation.
 Adam lives in Washington, DC, USA

Agenda
 Requirements Discovery and management, linked to:
 Manual testing
 Unit testing (e.g. NUnit, MS-Test, jUnit)
 UI testing
 Load testing
 API Testing
 Connecting to CI server such as Jenkins.
 Data-driven testing example
 Monitoring, with dashboards and reporting

Takeaways
1. Learn about the different tiers of testing
2. Understand how tools can address the challenges of
testing each tier
3. See a sample architecture for a typical web-based multi-
tier application
4. How you can bring it all together for your applications

Testing = Manage Technical Risk

So What Do We Need to Do First?
 Define Our Requirements
 Develop Our Test Strategy

What Are The Requirements?
 We need a set of “requirements” to write our
tests, regardless of whether we’re using an
Agile or Waterfall methodology.

What Our Our Requirements?
Traditional Requirements Matrix
Agile User Stories

Now What’s Our Test & Dev. Strategy
Source Code Mgt.
Requirements, User
Stories, etc.
Subversion
Git Continuous
Integration
(Jenkins)
Automated
Tests (Checks) Test
Environments
Acceptance
Tests
Installation
Process
Exploratory
Testing

What Tests Should We Automate?

There Is Never Enough Time for Testing
You should not seek to automate 100% of all your tests,
because manual testing and automated testing are more
efficient at different things

What Tests Should We Automate?
• Automate the repetitive, stable, unchanging,
boring things that are ideal for automated
testing
• Let manual testing find the lurking items that
you don’t even know exist (yet!) and cannot
automate.

Continuous Integration (CI)
 Ensure that you have a robust set of “smoke”
tests that can run after every CI build
 Unit, API and Automated UI tests

Continuous Deployment (CD)
Automating the process from release ready, tests passed, to
production, post-release checks.

Automated Testing
What types of automation should we consider?

Unit Testing
• Unit test frameworks are chosen for each technology you use:
• Java Development – jUnit or TestNG
• .NET Development – NUnit or MS-Test
• Similar frameworks for Ruby, Perl, Python, JS, C
• Tie them into your test management platform if possible

API / Service Testing
 APIs are now more important than the applications
 Business Models such as UBER or AWS Rely on APIs
 You need to regression every version of the API you support

API / Service Testing
 Tools such as SOAP-UI, Rapise, POSTman can test different APIs
 Some are limited to SOAP, REST, etc. others cover multiple types
 Make sure you tie them back into your test management system

Automated User Interface (UI) Testing
 A lot of business rules, functionality still in the UI layer
 Automate the parts that are stable and time consuming to manually test. Beware the negative
ROI of testing 100% of a highly changing UI. Humans deal with change better*
(*until AI solves it!)

Automated User Interface (UI) Testing
 There are various UI testing tools available:
 Free tools such as Selenium, Appium, etc. require you to be a programmer
 Commercial tools such as Rapise, Ranorex, UFT, TestComplete make it easier for the non-
programmer
 Choose the tool(s) that work with your application and your testing team’s skill level

Non-Functional Testing
• Don’t leave Performance Testing Until the End (*Big Mistake*)
• There are many tools to choose from (JMeter, NeoLoad, LoadRunner,
etc.)
• Make sure you tie it into your test management platform

Manual Testing
Automated checks aren’t everything

Manual Testing / User Testing
 There are many good test management tools to choose
from. Don’t default to using Excel, Google Sheets
 Understand UAT manual testing vs. Exploratory Testing
 They are different and should be used appropriately

Manual Testing / User Testing
 There are many good test management tools to choose
from. Don’t default to using Excel, Google Sheets
 Understand UAT, manual testing vs. Exploratory Testing
 They are different and should be used appropriately

Data-Driven Automated Testing
Create automated tests so that they are reusable across
different combinations of test data

Monitoring Test Activities
 In the next sections we will discuss the different types of
testing.
 It is important to be able to monitor all testing activities
and track key metrics
 Requirements test coverage
 Code test coverage
 Regression coverage of at-risk areas

Monitoring Test Activities
 Modern test management tools include powerful
dashboards and reports.

Wrap Up
 Testing Reduces Business Risk
 Let Your Requirements Drive Your Test Strategy
 Your “TestOps” Environment depends on your DevOps
 Your Test Plan Should Include Various Types of Testing to
Meet Your Objectives and Business Goals

See It In Action…
An example using SpiraTest

Thank you for attending.
See you next year :-)

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