Getting started with test automation requires determining if an organization is ready by assessing goals, skills, and resources. Key factors include having a shared understanding of goals for quality improvement through time savings and reduced errors. Automation requires new technical skills in coding and collaboration between teams like development, operations, and testing. It is important to identify allies to help get started and recognize that success requires ongoing investment of resources but provides the benefits of learning new skills.

5. HOW DO WE GET STARTED
WITH TEST AUTOMATION?

6. ARE WE READY TO GET
STARTED WITH TEST
AUTOMATION?

7. • Reduction of errors
• Time savings
• Better use of time
• Opportunity to learn and
master new skills

8. DAN PINK
Human beings have an inherent
tendency to seek out novelty and
challenges, to extend and exercise
their capacities, to explore, and to
learn.

9. • Shared Understanding of
Goals
• Automation is a new skill
• Quality is not free
• Automation is an
investment

10. • What do we mean
by “Automation”

12. • Interaction with other teams
• Testing as part of
Development
• Data ownership

13. • Technical Skills
• Interest, Desire and
Motivation

14. • Automation is Coding
• New Skills
• Test-friendly applications
• Test Automation is more
than just UI Automation

15. • Developers
• Operations / DevOps /
TechOps
• Outside the company

16. • Goals - Why & What
• Assessments - Organization & People
• Find Allies
• and remember…

17. There is no magic.