The document discusses test automation from multiple perspectives including tool vendors, companies, certifications, and testers. It emphasizes testability over automatability, testing expertise over coding expertise, and focusing on risks over test coverage. The document provides various frameworks for determining test automation opportunities based on factors like the team, project, product, and technology context. It also presents models for designing automated checks at different levels from the user interface to databases and for different stages of a user flow. Throughout, it stresses the importance of education and staying focused on using automation to elevate testing practices.

1. Automation
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3. What does ‘test automation’
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4. What the tool vendors say…
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5. What companies want…
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6. What The certs say…
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7. What The testers say…
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8. ‘Automation in testing’
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9. Strategy, create, usage and
education
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10. replicating testing
Testability over automatability
Testing expertise over coding
expertise
Problems before tools
Focusing on risk over coverage
Observability over understanding
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11. Sounds great, but how?
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12. TESTABILITY

13. Team Context
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14. Project context
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15. Product context
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16. Technology context
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17. Spotting automation
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18. Story: DATA creation
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19. Story: ADB & Appium Deploy
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20. Language exposure@FriendlyTester

21. Tool exposure
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22. Automated checks
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23. The F.A.R.T Model @FriendlyTester

24. TRIMS Mnemonic
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25. UI
JS
API
APP
DB
Load
page
Build
login page
Interact
with Login
Send API
request
Process API
request
Check credentials /
Create token
Send API
response
Flag as
logged in
Render
room comp.
View
rooms
Potential
check
Seam /
Layer
Action
Successful
login flow
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Automated check complexity

26. UI
JS
API
APP
DB
Creating a
booking
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27. S – State Management
A – Algorithm
C – Codified Oracle
R – Reporting
E – Execution
D – Deterministic
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30. Small rapid feedback cycles
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31. Educate folk
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32. Stay on track
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33. Go forth – let automation
elevate you
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