While we draw parallels to Queen's Gambit the series on Netflix and Software Testing, this talk is not about how substance abuse is like testing. Instead, the movie guides us to to its name and figuring out what is this gambit. With exploratory testing, we have the opening moves, the midpart and the end game. The start can be anything but it builds our platform for the end game. And while exploratory testing, automation is part of that way of staying in tune with learning to win in the end game.

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2020 - historical film – 1 season

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Black cannot retain the
pawn without incurring
a disadvantage.
White appears to
sacrifice the c-pawn.

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The Automationist’s
Gambit
* Opening by sacrificing
material to win in the end

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Time used on warning about
test automation is away
from succeeding with it.
* opportunity cost

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Exploratory Testing
TEST DESIGN
TEST
EXECUTION
LEARNING,
AGENCY
IMPACTFUL RESULTS

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Exploratory Testing?
TEST DESIGN
TEST
EXECUTION
MANUAL AUTOMATED

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Exploratory Testing?
TEST DESIGN
TEST
EXECUTION
MANUAL AUTOMATED

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Contemporary
Exploratory Testing
MANUAL AUTOMATED
LEARNING,
AGENCY
IMPACTFUL RESULTS

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You can't automate well
without exploring. You can't
explore well without
automating.

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An
Example

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Algorithm
Bug
Test Cases
Test data
Openings

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Traditional Exploratory Testing Artifacts

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Test Strategy for E-Primer

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The Automationist’s
Gambit
Test Automation is Documentation!

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Robot Framework makes
easy things easier and hard
things harder.

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Single line
→See it fail
→First test
→Same test but variables
→Same test but templates
→Failing test with a bug
→Spec to tests
→Guess the values that are likely to fail
→Multiple browsers
→Runs in CI
Throwaway
automation?

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Bugs Found
- Some of specified examples not properly recognized
And Missed…
- Text box resize is broken (my bad)
- Browser crashes with 32k+1 chars with spaces (tool)
- n and – and … messes up word count
- More specified examples not properly recognized

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Automation in
Frame of
Exploratory Testing

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Attended
Unattended
Moving Focus
Learning
Learning
Learning
Learning

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UNIT
SERVICE
UI
Exploratory
Sprinkle On Top
Exploratory Testing
Contemporary
Exploratory Testing
UNIT
SERVICE
UI

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Can You?
Test Code Collaborate Ideate
Learn

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Gambit is an opening with
an appearance of sacrifice.
What is your opening and
what is your end game?

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