The document outlines a session on agile test automation at the World Conference on Next Generation Testing, scheduled for July 8-12 in Bangalore. It discusses common pitfalls in testing, rescue strategies, and emphasizes the importance of understanding and improving test architecture. Additionally, it covers best practices in coding for test stability, and includes various resources for further learning.

1. World Conference –
Next Generation Testing
08 – 12 July, Le-Meridien, Bangalore
Agile Test Automation
Anti-patterns & Rescue Strategies
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Speaker:
Karthik Sirasanagandla
Agile/Lean Coach
Industrial Logic
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2. What do you expect out of this
session?
Is anyone having a painful story to
share?
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3. The Big Things That Go Wrong..
The Details That Go Awry...
The Rescue Strategies..
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The Big Things That Go Wrong!
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5. It’s So SCARY!!!
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6. • Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be
understood. -- Marie Curie
– You’re not afraid to try again, you’re just afraid of
getting hurt.
• In Everyday Scripting with Ruby, Brian Marick
advises to learn to program by writing one.
#FailProof
• Learn By Doing
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7. Silos
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Scrum MasterManager Developer
QA
...
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8. Results Over Reasoning
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9. • Cost: Manual Versus Automation
• Business Value of Deliverable
• Automate Everything That Is Repeatable
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10. Discontinuous Integration
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11. CI in Progress
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12. What’s Your Test Architecture?
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13. Skewed Test Architecture
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17. Quiz Time
• What is the wolf that can huff and puff your hay stack in
your test pyramid?
• What is the wolf that can break your wooden stack in
your test pyramid?
• Who is the wolf that can break you brick stack in your
test pyramid?
• What is the moral of the story? Just build unit
tests???
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18. Old Is Gold
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19. One Huge Monolithic Test Suite
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20. The Details That Go Awry!
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21. I Love Se IDE
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22. X-Path Rocks
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23. Where’re The Page Objects?
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24. Page-Object Littered With Assertions
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25. Bad Code
#my_target_page.rb
def verify_edit_link_presence
//BAD: Assertion in Page-Object
has_link?("Edit").should be_true
end
#my_target_spec
it "blah blah blah"
@my_target_page.do_some_action
@my_target_page.verify_edit_link_presence
end
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26. Good Code
#my_target_page.rb
def has_edit_link?
has_link?("Edit")
end
#my_target_spec
it "blah blah blah"
@my_target_page.do_some_action
@my_target_page.has_edit_link?.should
be_true
end
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27. I love to sleep
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28. Scenario To Code: Good Versus Bad
As a user
I should be able to add notes to the table
so that the information is recorded for future reference.
def add_and_save_notes notes
fill_in("my_target_text_box", :with => notes)
click_button "Save" # This makes an AJAX request and
adds new row to the table upon successfully saving
sleep(3) #<-- This is BAD code.
end
def add_and_save_notes notes
...
wait_until { has_text?(notes) } #<-- This is GOOD
practice that enables test stability and hence faith in
test results
end
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29. Asserting message for exactness
• #my_target_spec.rb
describe "save notes" do
it "should add notes as new row to table upon successful save" do
notes = "sample notes"
expected_update_message = "Your note is added successfully!"
@my_target_page. add_and_save_notes notes
@my_target_page.update_message.should == expected_update_message
end
end
Why measure
exactness???
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30. Duplication makes life easy
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31. Long live dead code!!!
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32. Rescue Strategies
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33. Didn’t we discuss about it all the way?
...Do you want to know anything more?
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34. References Resources
• Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
– Driving Selenium Safely from http://
elearning.industriallogic.com
• http://patrickwilsonwelsh.com/
• http://kartzontech.blogspot.in/
• Everyday scripting with Ruby for Teams, Testers and
You.
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35. Thank You
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contact@unicomlearning.com
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