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- 1. Testing the BBC News Website Mark Micallef
- 11. The timeline… Aug 09 Aug 10 Feb Nov May
- 12. The timeline… Aug 09 Aug 10 Feb Nov May Winter Olympics UK Elections FIFA World Cup
- 13. Starting Point Dev Team Product Manager Project Manager Tester Spec
- 14. “ Use the project as a platform for transitioning to Agile”
- 15. The timeline… Aug 09 Aug 10 Feb Nov May Winter Olympics UK Elections FIFA World Cup Project Setup Stabilization Delivery Mode Post-Launch
- 16. Risk mitigation Aug 09 Aug 10 Feb Nov May Winter Olympics UK Elections FIFA World Cup Rel A Rel B Rel C
- 21. Scope
- 25. Process for each user story
- 28. Process for each user story
- 30. Test Automation
- 31. Technologies
- 32. Technologies
- 33. Automated Testing Technology Stack Analysts Engineers
- 34. Cucumber Example @smoketest @editions Scenario: International user accessing the news website Given I am a user outside the UK When I visit the News website Then I should be redirected to the International Edition And I should see adverts on the page
- 35. Given /^I am a user outside the UK$/ do pending end When /^I visit the news website$/ do pending end Then /^I should be redirected to the international edition$/ do pending end Then /^I should see adverts on the page$/ do pending end
- 36. Given /^I am a user outside the UK$/ do @helpers.set_proxy(INTERNATIONAL) end When /^I visit the news website$/ do @browser.open(“/”) end Then /^I should be redirected to the international edition$/ do assert_equal(true, @page.is_international?) end Then /^I should see adverts on the page$/ do assert_equal(true, @page.ads_present?) end
- 39. Test Environments Test (Manual Exploratory Tests) Int (Dev & Unit Testing) Stage (NFR + Config Testing) Test XE (Automated Acceptance Tests)
- 40. Test Data Management Test XE QA Workbench Create Test Data Test Data Copied Over Execute Automated Tests Republish
- 47. Bug Management
- 50. Bug Management
- 51. Signoff Velocity
- 53. David McCandless on Visualisation (TED)
- 54. Thank you…
Editor's Notes
- The talk is given in the context of work at the BBC This is one of the first versions of the BBC News website
- Site evolution
- Stories uploaded by journalists world-wide Widened More focus on AV (VoD and live streaming) Feeds and syndication Multiple editions Driven by both legacy and new toolsets Incorporation of number of technologies
- With limited technical resources, we needed to unify technologies from a testing perspective
- With limited technical resources, we needed to unify technologies from a testing perspective
- With limited technical resources, we needed to unify technologies from a testing perspective
- With limited technical resources, we needed to unify technologies from a testing perspective
- - Introduce myself and what I do - Introduce talk Common practice: Test automation is a technical problem which must be solved by technical people Hence we hire teams of …
- - Introduce myself and what I do - Introduce talk Common practice: Test automation is a technical problem which must be solved by technical people Hence we hire teams of …
- With limited technical resources, we needed to unify technologies from a testing perspective
- We chose Ruby…because… Easier to learn Loose syntax makes it ideal for DSLs Can speak to other languages
- How roles combine
- Executable tests in natural language Non-technical people can - write scripts - collaborate with product managers - maintain vocabulary
- Regular expressions make code executable Non-technical people can create these rules as well Pending keyword will point out tasks to engineers
- Regular expressions make code executable Non-technical people can create these rules as well Pending keyword will point out tasks to engineers
- - Introduce myself and what I do - Introduce talk Common practice: Test automation is a technical problem which must be solved by technical people Hence we hire teams of …