The document discusses the importance of quality in software automation, emphasizing that 100% code coverage does not guarantee quality and that effective automation solutions require significant investment. It stresses the need for continuous integration, quick deployment, and proactive monitoring to recognize failures early, while fostering a culture of quality ownership among teams. Additionally, it highlights the need to measure and improve quality constantly without turning it into rigid KPIs.

1. Improving Quality
Guy Gershoni
@ihadyoujohnny

2. Automation Myths

3. Code Coverage
- 100% = fully checked
- Will ensure quality

4. Code Coverage
Project A
- over 90%
- Reliably
unreliable!
Project B:
- 0% TDD & BDD
- Reliable and
successful

5. Automation Suite is expensive
- All code has to be
maintained
- Cost of running
- ROI

6. Make them count!
coding
checking
scripts
integration
checks

7. TDD & BDD are not for testing
Analysis & Design

8. Goal of Automation Suite
To fail fast!

9. Before you write a regression suite:
- Continuous Integration
- framework for checks
- Quick deploys & rollbacks
- recover from failure
- Functional and
behavioural monitoring
- recognize failure fast

10. Quality
Testing

11. Quality is an attitude

12. Ownership
Pride
Hunger for Quality

13. Define Quality
Monitor QualityImprove Quality

14. Define Quality
● For me
For the team
For other teams
For the company
● Evolves and
changes over
time.

15. Monitor Quality
● What can we measure?
● Constantly view it (quality top of mind)
● Must be low maintenance and current
(automated)
● DO NOT
make into KPIs

16. Improve Quality
● Lower the cost of
failure
● Experiment
● Review

17. Tester
Quality Champion

18. Skill up

19. helps
Developer
BA
Operations
Business

20. Questions?

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