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- 1. What’s so great about WebDriver? Mark Winteringham
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- 4. You don't need to learn programming to Test... but it helps Mark Winteringham
- 5. Automation: Time to change our models Iain McCowatt ‘Look at the world through a different pair of lenses every time you have a problem’ www.ministryoftesting.com/2014/05/automation-time-change-models-iain-mccowatt/ Mental models
- 6. Jim wants to automate checking a service validates a range of payloads correctly Jim builds a script in WebDriver via the UI the service consumes It results in automation that’s slow and brittle Jim continues to tinker with the script It’s too hard! ‘Automator Jim’ knows WebDriver
- 7. What if Jim knew about a different tool such as JMeter or SOAPUI? ‘We shape our tools and then our tools shape us’ industryweek.com Marshall McLuhan
- 8. ‘Be promiscuous’ What if Jim isn’t even aware that these tools exist or that he could benefit in learning them in the first place But.. Learn more models, learn more tools
- 9. What if we as a testing community collectively have limited mental models about automation and are consequently feeding the same limited mental models back to testers like Jim The question
- 10. Automation workshops/talks in conferences WebDriver/Seleni um, 17 Watir, 1 API, 2 Big Data, 2 Unit Testing, 2 BDD, 5 Monitoring, 2 Security Testing, 1 WebDriver/Selenium Watir API Big Data Unit Testing BDD Monitoring Security Testing Talks and workshops that explicitly talk about an automation tool 5 Popular conferences 2012 – 2015
- 11. Automation tools in Job specs 67 Jobs roles Keywords: • Developer in test • Automation test engineer Source: cwjobs.co.uk – 23/1/15 Selenium / WebDriver, 57 Cucumber, 22 *unit, 22 QTP, 12 SoapUI/LoadUI, 9 SQL, 6 JBehave, 5 TestNG, 5 Test Complete, 5 Appium, 4 Calabash, 4 Fitnesse Jasmine Karma JMock Fitnesse Capybara Jmeter Rational Watin Visual Studios Ranorex Specflow LoadRunner Webload Siege BurpSuite Rspec Behat Mink EasyMock Espresso
- 12. What’s so great about WebDriver? It offers limited mental models – Automating through the UI!
- 13. WebDriver/Seleniu m 53% Watir 3% API 7% Big Data 6% Unit Testing 6% BDD 16% Monitoring 6% Security Testing 3% http://watirmelon.com/2011/06/10/yet-another-software-testing-pyramid/ =/
- 14. Where are the workshops or requirements for skills in: Monitoring Deployment Test data population Configuration Management Parsing data API Testing Unit testing
- 15. So what could we do? Look further afield to learn new tools Tinker around with other tools Personal Community Demand more diversity in automation training When writing job roles focus more on the problems that need solving Think more about the problem you want to solve, is your current model enough?
- 16. Detox ourselves from WebDriver… maybe with a bit of Watir Thank you
- 17. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- For those glass half full people out there this isn’t a talk about why WebDriver is good For those glass half empty people it isn’t a talk about why WebDriver is bad This is a talk about Models, Skillsets and a guy called Jim
- To begin with this was going to be my talk It was my intention in this talk to make some remarks about automation and how we can do much more than simply automate checks And in doing so I was going to quote from this talk… <Change talk>
- Iain’s talk presents how Testers should have multiple mental models about how you could solve a problem with automation. Or as he puts it ‘Look at the world through a different pair of lenses every time you have a problem’. The more mental models you have and the ease in which you can switch between these models can determine how successful your testing might be. But as I revisited the talk there was a part in which he talked about how ‘Tools shape how you test’. I began to form a questions about our testing community Let me introduce my question with an my interpretation of the above quote <change slide>
- He could have created a faster more stable test that would have done a better job He has a limited amount of mental models because he only knows how to use one tool Having knowledge of more tools and models could mean Jim could make better choices
- How does he learn about tools that are available to him or even realise he could benefit from learning them He would look at what training there is out there and what other testers are doing to solve similar problems
- Are conferences ignoring other workshops for other tools? I don’t think so I believe this is a symptom of supply and demand
- All the items listed on the right appear in 2% or less of the job roles
- Why is WebDriver skill and training so much more prevalent than other tools? Are we fixated with the thinking that all our automation problems can be solved through the automating UI instead others ways like ‘Automator Jim
- Based on the evidence in the previous slides it appears we have a very distorted view of what is important and what is not when it comes to automating and if we continue to follow the same path we will still have testers like ‘Automator Jim’ making the same mistakes again and again
- Split into personal and community driven goals