„Learn from your mistakes” as they say, but what if you’re not aware that you’re making mistakes… will you learn anything? During the presentation I will talk about 7 paths. Following them is not commonly considered as a mistake, nevertheless this common belief does not change the facts that they all lead to an unmaintainable and incomprehensible automated test suite. We enter these paths having a certain business goal in mind. While the goal itself is usually sensible I will envision the reality that we will wake up in after following a given path long enough. As already said, some goals are sensible and for those we will explore different paths that allow to achieve them. During the presentation we will also learn that some of goals that seem to be great, are in fact flawed in their very inner core. I will redefine these goals so they become flawless, and having the flawless goal in hand I will show a decent path that leads to it.

2. AGENDA
• Glutony
• Greed
• Sloth
• Envy
• Pride
• Kenodoxia
• Desire/Anger

3. GLUTTONY
• aPraepropere– too soon
• aLaute– too expensive
• aNimis,aArdenter– too much / eagerly

4. aPraepropere– before time

5. aLaute– too expensive
• Ensure that something does not happen (impossible/flickering)
• Basing on schedulers (* */1 * * *)
• Push downwards

6. aArdenter/Nimis– too eagerly/much

7. aStudiose – too daintly
• Mockery
• Try not to mock at all (functor approach)
• Try not to mock business objects (business object library)

8. aForente – wildly

9. GREED
One wants access to resources she
should not have access to
• system test using non-business API
(ex. querying DB to see if everything is
ok)
• integration test checking state of
classes that it is supposed to integrate

10. SLOTH
One does not want to do one's duty
• Tests that do not clean after themselves
• Purposely usess mess left by other test

11. ENVY
One wants to do other's duties
• System test extensively asserting (ex. report content)

12. KENODOXIA - BOASTING

13. BOASTING TEST
MODEST TEST

14. PRIDE
It's good to know languages
but...
• Java
• Groovy
• Scala
• XQuery
• Etc.

15. WRATH / DESIRE

16. WRATH