In the presentation it could be found some examples of unsuccessful automated framework. Common recommendations are discussed and proposed.

1. Gop-stop automated testing
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2. Meaning…
Gop-stop (slang) – robbery; an attack aimed at theft of
property of a victim committed with the use of violence,
or with the threat of violence…
Translation: гоп-стоп - грабёж; нападение с целью хищения имущества потерпевшего,
совершённое с применением насилия, либо с угрозой применения насилия

3. What's stealing?
• Time
• Money
• Mental energy (so called - demotivation)
• People
• Projects
• Your cases …. ?
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4. Why does it happen…sometimes?
- Inexperienced managers
- Inexperienced workers
- Few controlled circumstances
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5. How can identify that?
Usual phrases sound like:
- “We have to see 100% parity and coverage!”
- “We have to automate 100% test cases!”
- “You promised to complete this test set last week!”
- “Why our tests are still failing?”
- “You promised to complete that at 8 P.M.!”
- “Why this test case is still failing???”
- “We are doing code cleaning…”
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6. Stop this demagogy,
give me the real example!!!
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7. Framework issues…
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Test automation framework side:
- too complicated framework with many spikes -> hard
maintainability,
- automated test case is longer then two listings;
- no stable test cases set -> CI builds time to time fails;
- extensive programming -> do as many code lines as possible
w/out encapsulation;
- test data is given by different "providers": hard-coded, as files in
a project, from api provider (e.g.TFS), etc.

8. Framework issues…
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Real-life example:
- developed framework with complicated architecture;
- about 15 bad-designed test cases (each test case is about 150-
200 lines of code) and all these tests got failed both in CI and
even locally have been developed;
- test data is given by different "providers": hard-coded, as files in
a project, from api provider (e.g.TFS)

9. CI results for such framework…
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Numberoftestcases
Date
Failed test cases Passed test cases
WTF???

10. Process issues…
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Testing and development process side:
- it takes much time newcomer to start working on a project;
- much time and effort is going to fix some unique situations
instead of working on main functionality/important bugs;
- switching between the projects each few days;
- complicated relationships between the customer and the vendor
-- solve problem - not people!
- the customer's PMs cannot make a final decision and put it on
the team shoulders;

11. Process issues…
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12. Potential solutions…
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Common recommendations:
-- dive deeply into designed architecture;
- focus on specific pieces of an application instead of long E2E
testing;
- try to not automate 100% if the tests set will be unstable;
Audited framework recommendations:
- define strategy of preparing test data (in the framework all
business entities are created in the test case directly, which
takes sometimes about 50 lines of code or more…);
- stop developing new automated test cases and encapsulate
members to improve and simplify test cases design;
- improve quality of functional test cases;

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