1. The document discusses test automation in organizations and provides guidance on implementing an effective test automation strategy and process.
2. It recommends starting small with test automation, selecting the right tools, and taking a central or decentralized approach.
3. Key steps include making your work visible, clear decision making, piloting test automation, assessing feasibility, and eventually transitioning to operational use across divisions.
How to manage your testing automation project ttm methodologyRam Yonish
מנהלים רבים וארגונים רבים מיישמים אוטומציה בתהליך הבדיקות שלהם אבל עדיין מרגישים שההחזר על ההשקעה נמוך ואף שלילי. מחקרים רבים מראים כי הבעיה נובעת מחוסר תיאום ציפיות, זיהוי לא נכון של הבעיות שהכלים באים לפתור, בחירת כלי לא מתאים ותהליך הטמעה שגוי.
מתודולוגיית TMM (Testing tools management) באה לתת מענה בדיוק לבעיות שהוצגו. המתודולוגיה כוללת הגדרת השלבים השונים בפרויקט אוטומציה, החל מהגדרת הבעיה, דרך בחירת הכלי, בחינת הכלי, הטמעה ומדידת האפקטיביות שלו לכל אורך הפרויקט
This article intended to analyze what are the main techniques (either classic or agile) used in software development in small and medium-sized companies, ranking them on a use-level scale and looking for the level of agility inside those companies.
How to manage your testing automation project ttm methodologyRam Yonish
מנהלים רבים וארגונים רבים מיישמים אוטומציה בתהליך הבדיקות שלהם אבל עדיין מרגישים שההחזר על ההשקעה נמוך ואף שלילי. מחקרים רבים מראים כי הבעיה נובעת מחוסר תיאום ציפיות, זיהוי לא נכון של הבעיות שהכלים באים לפתור, בחירת כלי לא מתאים ותהליך הטמעה שגוי.
מתודולוגיית TMM (Testing tools management) באה לתת מענה בדיוק לבעיות שהוצגו. המתודולוגיה כוללת הגדרת השלבים השונים בפרויקט אוטומציה, החל מהגדרת הבעיה, דרך בחירת הכלי, בחינת הכלי, הטמעה ומדידת האפקטיביות שלו לכל אורך הפרויקט
This article intended to analyze what are the main techniques (either classic or agile) used in software development in small and medium-sized companies, ranking them on a use-level scale and looking for the level of agility inside those companies.
Ruud Teunissen - Personal Test Improvement - Dealing with the FutureTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2008 presentation on Personal Test Improvement - Dealing with the Future by Ruud Teunissen. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Increasing business success with TPI NEXT and PointZERORik Marselis
Rik Marselis presented how TPI NEXT and PointZERO can contribute to increasing the business success of an organization by improving the testing process as well as the IT process as a whole.
Prior to this presentation Rik, together with Geoff Thompson, presented about "Why would you want to improve your test process" (also uploaded on slideshare).
This presentation was given at a conference for the test experts of the Siemens group.
User Acceptance Testing in the Testing Center of ExcellenceTechWell
Centralization of testing services into a testing center of excellence (TCoE) for system testing is common in IT shops today. To make this transformation mature, the next logical step is to incorporate the user acceptance testing (UAT) function into the TCoE. This poses unique challenges for the TCoE and mandates the testing team develop a combination of business process knowledge coupled with technology and test process expertise. Deepika Mamnani shares her experiences in implementing a UAT TCoE and best practices—from inception to planning to execution. Learn techniques to create business-oriented testable requirements, strategies to size and structure the team, and the role of automation. Review testing metrics needed to measure the success of the UAT function. Hear a real-world transformation journey and the quantitative business benefits achieved by an organization incorporating UAT as a centralized function within the TCoE. Take back strategies to incorporate UAT as a part of your TCoE.
Software testing is a long and multi-layer process which involves a lot of development and probing for the software. Quality assurance and quality management have never been as important as they are now.
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2011 presentation on Implementing Change by Torben Hoelgaard. See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
The Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis is a reliability evaluation/design technique which examines the potential failure modes within a system and its equipment, in order to determine the effects on equipment and system performance.
James Brodie - Outsourcing Partnership - Shared Perspectives TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2009 presentation on Outsourcing Partnership - Shared Perspectives by James Brodie. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Ruud Teunissen - Personal Test Improvement - Dealing with the FutureTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2008 presentation on Personal Test Improvement - Dealing with the Future by Ruud Teunissen. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Increasing business success with TPI NEXT and PointZERORik Marselis
Rik Marselis presented how TPI NEXT and PointZERO can contribute to increasing the business success of an organization by improving the testing process as well as the IT process as a whole.
Prior to this presentation Rik, together with Geoff Thompson, presented about "Why would you want to improve your test process" (also uploaded on slideshare).
This presentation was given at a conference for the test experts of the Siemens group.
User Acceptance Testing in the Testing Center of ExcellenceTechWell
Centralization of testing services into a testing center of excellence (TCoE) for system testing is common in IT shops today. To make this transformation mature, the next logical step is to incorporate the user acceptance testing (UAT) function into the TCoE. This poses unique challenges for the TCoE and mandates the testing team develop a combination of business process knowledge coupled with technology and test process expertise. Deepika Mamnani shares her experiences in implementing a UAT TCoE and best practices—from inception to planning to execution. Learn techniques to create business-oriented testable requirements, strategies to size and structure the team, and the role of automation. Review testing metrics needed to measure the success of the UAT function. Hear a real-world transformation journey and the quantitative business benefits achieved by an organization incorporating UAT as a centralized function within the TCoE. Take back strategies to incorporate UAT as a part of your TCoE.
Software testing is a long and multi-layer process which involves a lot of development and probing for the software. Quality assurance and quality management have never been as important as they are now.
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2011 presentation on Implementing Change by Torben Hoelgaard. See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
The Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis is a reliability evaluation/design technique which examines the potential failure modes within a system and its equipment, in order to determine the effects on equipment and system performance.
James Brodie - Outsourcing Partnership - Shared Perspectives TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2009 presentation on Outsourcing Partnership - Shared Perspectives by James Brodie. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Top Ten Tips for Tackling Test Automation Webinar Presentation.pptxInflectra
Inflectra and Checkpoint Technologies co-hosted the webinar: Top Ten Tips for Tackling Test Automation. In this webinar, Adam Sandman (Inflectra) and Bob Crews (Checkpoint Technologies) explored the challenges surrounding test automation and offered their tips on overcoming them.
Find the recording of the Webinar on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY1MbW4qWnQ
Webinar Agenda:
-Top 10 challenges of test automation with impact and solutions
-Impacts: potential risks if challenges are not overcome
-Solutions: tips to overcoming the challenges
-Automated functional testing
-Criteria of an Automation Assessment
-Addressing several challenges with Inflectra's Spira and Rapise
Webinar Presenters:
Adam Sandman is the Founder and CEO of Inflectra. He has been working in the IT industry for the past 25+ years. His areas of expertise span software architecture to agile development, software testing, test automation, and project management. He is interested in technology, business, and enabling people to follow their passions. At Inflectra, Adam is responsible for researching the tools, technologies, and processes in the software testing and quality assurance space. Adam is a prolific speaker whose speaking engagements range from StarEast, and Eurostar to STPcons, DevGeekWeek, Swiss Testing Day, NDIA, STARCanada, TestingMind, Agile DevOps West, StarWest, testCon, JFTL, and many more.
Bob Crews, Co-Founder and CEO of Checkpoint Technologies, is a consultant with 34 years of IT experience in full life-cycle development and software testing. Bob and his organization provide services and solutions focused on QA with a concentration in functional, performance and application security testing. He’s assisted organizations such as Harvard University, Raymond James, the FBI, and the Department of Veterans Affairs in developing teams, processes, and solutions to help organizations deliver higher quality software faster. He’s consulted for over 290 organizations on QA, effective software testing, strategic test planning, enhanced test automation, and risk-based testing. He’s exceptionally enthusiastic about the future of IT and software testing and believes “The best is yet ahead!”
Automation Essentials for the Age of AgileApplause
Applause automation experts share the steps to successfully implementing automation into your agile QA strategy. Everything from evaluating your own testing strategy to exploring automation across the SLDC as you mature to automation best practices are covered.
Testing fundamentals in a changing world (annotated slides)Derk-Jan de Grood
Slides of my September SIGIST Keynote.
Description:
With the fast adoption of agile the definition of testing and our test approach changes. When deploying daily, there is no room for manual testing and a test report.
It’s time to get back to our fundamentals. Why do we work the way we do, and what needs do organisations have?
In this Keynote, Derk-Jan de Grood will explore the fundamental assets of the test profession, so we can reshape or test approach and make it work in an Agile context.
Although the daily focus shifts from working in silo’s to collaboration, from execution to coaching, from preparing to doing, the test fundamentals remain in place. In our search we will distinguish unchanged artefacts that we’ll create for a different reason and goals that remain unchanged but will only be achieved if we take a different route.
But bear in mind, not every project is done by using agile methods. Therefore we’ll also explore what concepts
of agile testing can we use to improve our traditional projects.
By understanding what is changed and what not we can adopt our approach, guide our stakeholders and
colleagues in order to align testing with the company goals.
Three key points:
Both agile and traditional projects are changing – testing needs to align
We still need some of the same test fundamentals – but perhaps for a different reason
We still have some of the same test goals – but we’ need to achieve them in different ways.
With 90% of large organizations already adopting RPA in 2022, chances are you are expanding your UiPath program and not leveraging the advantages of test automation yet.
Traditional manual software testing is a tedious endeavor. It requires multiple tools and an extensive set of activities that force humans to scour application screens, attempt various usage and input combinations, compare results to expected outcomes, and record observations.
Watch this recap to learn how UiPath Test Automation accelerates the quality of every Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or any application before it goes live – enabling teams to launch resilient robots and high-quality software without testing their patience.
How employees’ contribution to IT and Business Automation has a direct impact on their company’s knowledge and innovation.
Highlights:
• Solicitation requests placed through 18 LinkedIn and two Facebook group postings
• Over 5K requests sent by direct messages to LinkedIn group users
• 843 people opened the survey
• 222 people did not move beyond the survey’s description page
• 362 responses went through all the questions asked
• 336 responses retained after filtering
Curiosity and Infuse Consulting Present: Sustainable Test Automation Strategi...Curiosity Software Ireland
This webinar was co-hosted by Infuse Consulting and Curiosity Software on 27th September 2022. Watch the on demand recording here: https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/generate-rigorous-automated-tests-webinar
Your test automation rates are too low to match the speed of CI/CD, while suboptimal coverage is constantly letting bugs slip through. What do you do?
Many organisations treat this as a resourcing problem, often approaching services providers to navigate an automation skills shortage. Yet, hiring more people to perform the same processes is unsustainable, as the demand for automation persists sprint-over-sprint. In-house testing further risks growing dependent on a scripted framework that they can’t easily access or target for coverage. They risk throwing money constantly at external engineers to write repetitive scripts, fix brittle tests, and source test data. These suboptimal processes must be fixed first – people alone cannot fix test automation ROI.
This webinar will explore approaches to sustainable test automation that grows more efficient sprint-over-sprint, while targeting testing to de-risk the latest system changes. Nalin Parbhu, CEO of Infuse, and Curiosity’s George Blundell will draw on automation project experience from a range of different organisations. They will discuss collaborative approaches that automate processes surrounding test execution, while maximising reusability and optimising in-sprint test coverage. You will see solutions to perennial test automation barriers, including:
1. Collaborative test modelling, future proofing automation frameworks by maintaining intuitive living documentation.
2. In-sprint test and data generation, rapidly creating scripts from reusable flowchart models.
3. Automated test maintenance, targeting in-sprint coverage as requirements and systems change.
Keys to Successful Cohabitation: Governance and Autonomous TeamsDevOps.com
Our release management processes and teams are there to try to protect us from failure and disaster, but when we want to accelerate our velocity, they can seem to get in the way. Current best practices that optimize value streams move toward smaller, autonomous teams who are responsible for every aspect of delivery and risk management. But how can we do that without compromising our governance and introducing risk?
Join Helen Beal, a self-described ‘DevOpsologist’ at Ranger4 and Jeff Keyes, VP of Product at Plutora, to learn about:
Why autonomous teams and centralized governance can live together;
How organizations evolve to release frequently and safely on demand;
What happens to release managers in a decentralized model;
The technology that supports us in making risk-informed decisions.
Static Testing: We Know It Works, So Why Don’t We Use It?TechWell
We know that static testing is very effective in catching defects early in software development. Serious bugs, like race conditions which can occur in concurrent software, can't be reliably detected by dynamic testing. Such defects can cause a business major damage when they pop up in production. Despite its effectiveness in early defect detection and ease of use, static testing is not very popular among developers and testers. Meena Muthukumaran discusses reasons why static testing is not commonly used or not used optimally: lack of awareness, lack of time, and myths about cost and effort requirements. Meena explains ways to perform effective static testing—identifying your needs, shortlisting the tools based on your needs, creating awareness and a culture for proactively eliminating defects early in the lifecycle, and encouraging effective usage of static testing. She offers various implementation solutions to suit different development methodologies and ways to measure the benefits realized with static testing.
Case Study - Implementing DevOps for a complex hardware/software-based networ...Sailaja Tennati
This talk explained experiences and challenges implementing DevOps for a complex hardware/software-based network product with a large multi-site development team. DevOps was implemented across multiple organizations and system layers overcoming DevOps implementation challenges in a step-wise fashion. DevOps can be applied to complex multi-layer hardware/software based network products but be prepared for implementation challenges in the team and especially test orchestration and automation.
On 25 May the Software-Centric Systems Conference [SC]2 conference was held on the High-tech campus in Eindhoven. During this event I hosted an interactive session where we investigated the relationship between the lever of integration and the time to market. Most organizations aim for Continues Integration and deployment, since they want to deliver their products fast. It takes a lot from organizations to get there (slide 4). To give an example, CI/CD assumes that you integrate frequently. But at what level do organizations integrate, and how do they test it. The graph on slide 9 shows that increasing the system (e.g. from Units tot Systems) results in less frequent integration, because it becomes harder to test the integration.
Making this clear to management enables to manage expectations or helps to target your next improvements.
19. Are you ready for the real
challenge…
19
Economic
feasibility
Technical
feasibility
Organizational
feasibility
20. 1. Which application will fit
2. Which Divisions wants to start with test
automation
3. Make a prioritisation (roadmap with TI,
PoC en Operationale phase per division
4. Management decision to consolidate
5. Plan TI sessions
Test AnalystTest Navigator
ART team Test Navigator
ART team
Support
Operationale phase
Test Analyst
Business case
Managerial steering
First estimation by
IT/Test manager
Commitment on
priorities and roadmap
Turining BC bases
upon PoC findings
Decision
operational launch
Support by
ART team
PoC (pilot) faseexploration phase
PoC report
Test Navigator
Per division
Test Navigator
ART team
Economic
feasibility
Technical
feasibility
Organizational
feasibility
30. Wrap-up
Thou shall use this tool
6
30
8
What choise do you make?
1. Welke applicaties komen in aanmerking
2. Welke Divisies willen graag aan de slag
met test automatisering
3. Opstellen prioritering (roadmap met daarin
TI, PoC en Operationele fase ingepland
per divisie
4. MT besluit ter consolidatie
5. Inplannen TI sessies
Economische
haalbaarheid
Technische
haalbaarheid
Test Analyst
Test Navigator
ART team
Test Navigator
ART team
Support
Operationele fase
Test Analyst
Businesscase
MT sturing
Eerste inschatting
door IT/Test
manager
Commitment op
prioritering en roadmap
Organisatorische
haalbaarheid
Fine tunen BC op
basis van PoC
bevindingen
Hamerslag
operationele
launch
Support door
ART team
PoC (proef) fase
Verkenningsfase
PoC rapport
Test Navigator
In divsie
Test Navigator
ART team
TI PoC Ops
TA
Group
Clear decisions
Transi on toopera onal use
Lower ini al
threshold
Embedding in
organiza on
Economische
haalbaarheid
Technischehaalbaarheid
Organisatorischehaalbaarheid
31. Put it in a basket ?
31
Change needs
speed, limited
scope and
visibility
People
know
what they
need
People
determine
succes
Super impose does not work…
Still management wants to superimpose 1 tool.
There is not one solution that fits all problems
The ideal tools may vary over time and in each project
Introduction:
Tooling starts wiht big story, perfect tool, solution for everything, but in real it takes a year to get a little someting into operation.
Deltalloyd:
TA started on small scale, decentralized. Managing to large skill.
This slide:
Centralized: Big Entetprise tool for all. KPN: QC for all testers. Is this a succes. Yes, tooling availble for every project, No: no control over what is done with it, how it is used, no commitment. (it as option)
Question: does the advantage outweight the investment ?
Decentralized: each project its of solution.
Two extremes:
Many tools, free tools,
e.g. Sticky keys example
Disadvantage: No continuity, maybee more licentce cost, no sharing, not scalable
Other side of the spectrum:
All is regulated.
Ourt expereince is that you need to listen to the teams, they rule the need.
If you it right:
People come look to your garden…how does he do it
People want to learn and benefit from your knowledge
(link with
Succes is determined by people
Oil stain model : shange small, quick and visible)
The forces in the orgainsation
Management likes firm decisions and aims for one tool, one approach
1b) Management has a high over set of goals, that are hard to measure and do not releate to TA in a one to one relation
2) Value is found in using TA and learning to use it
so we need to
lower the treshold (get people to want to try TA
Help them to start using it operationaly
Make it sustainable
Who is using tools
Transition from tools to
The users
The things they do with it
So driven by need
Learning there is already a lot of knowledge in the organsiation
Rememer we wanted to lowr trashhold….
We believe this can be done by reusing knowledge and processes…therefor there is need voor repeativeness…preferred set of tools.
No need for BC (other drivers…..?,
MT seems to be convinced that we just shoud do it)
First show results, postpone support organisation until there is a need (
(links with small, fast, visible)
Linke with Change is in people, make them aware of the need first)
This is why the fruitbasked did not got accepted. The model is still used by us, but not understood by our enviroment.
True story, but not the right way of communicatie
This contained a message wch we misunderstood: Maybe the organsiation is not a mature as we think it is. This showed later
Link with earlier remark: Organisation might be less mature than you think…
Install some soort of Quality gate
Implemting in the organisation was more to do than just the tool. E.g.
Organisatorische haalbaarheid
Business case
Mangement involvement
Include management…who makes the decisions to do TA
Implemting in the organisation was more to do than just the tool. E.g.
Organisatorische haalbaarheid
Business case
Mangement involvement
Basket is tool oriented solution….
But succes is deterimined by other factors…
Basket is tool oriented solution….
But succes is deterimined by other factors…