Balancing Test Automation Techniques - Matt Archer

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Talk Description

Agile development teams place automated tests at the centre of their regression testing strategy, but how many different types of automation does a team need to feel confident that changing one area of a system has not negatively affected another?

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During this presentation I will explain two distinctly different approaches to test automation that were used simultaneously on the same project. One you may be familiar with; it was BDD. The other may be less familiar; a semi-automated piece of testing built around the principle of a “gold build”. As part of explaining each approach, I will describe their cost to implement, the types of bugs they typically detected and, most importantly, their ability to complement each other rather than conflict.

What you’ll learn

By the end of this talk, you'll be able to:

  • Recognise different approaches to automation
  • Outline the Behaviour Driven Development Process
  • Describe how a BDD framework works
  • Discuss whether testers should learn to code
  • Identify how automation can supports testing
  • Illustrate how to use automation to compare states
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