Automation in Testing
Automation in Testing
Effective and sustainable
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Preface
- Becoming familiar with an elephant
- Automation and chicken soup
- Lasting value
- A bit of terminology
- About the author
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Preface
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Part one: Automation in Testing
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1 The PUPPET model
- (Automation as a) Product
- Understanding (the essence)
- People
- Process
- Execution
- Techniques
- A complete and simple overview
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2 Success (through strategy)
- The goal (or: the why)
- The vision (or: the what)
- The plan (or: the how)
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1 The PUPPET model
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Part two: Understanding
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3 Testing
- Testing a car
- Many components
- Where to test
- What does the business need?
- Repeated testing
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4 Automation in testing
- Automation
- Testing cannot be automated
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5 Automating is not testing
- Automating is software engineering
- Skill
- Technical debt
- Other skills relating to automation
- Three roles
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6 It is not about the tool
- The tool is not the solution
- The tool is (probably) not the problem
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7 The goal and scope
- Good goals
- Pick one – but feel free to adjust later
- Scope
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8 The value of an automated check
- Is it being run?
- Is it telling you something interesting?
- Is it reliable?
- Is it fast enough?
- What happened here?
- Is it small enough?
- Is it independent?
- Two versions?
- Effective and efficient
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9 Writing good checks
- Readable
- Understandable
- Effort
- Tooling
- Test data
- Data-driven
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10 The secrets of the great pyramid
- Which one is the real pyramid?
- Using the original pyramid effectively
- What if there is no UI?
- Checks or instructions?
- The pyramid for other goals
- Many checks do not use one interface
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11 The design of an automation solution
- The conceptual picture
- The technical picture
- Integrated tools
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3 Testing
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Part three: Automation as a product
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12 Automation is a product
- A paint factory
- The machine is a product
- Automation is also a product
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14 The automation lifecycle
- The right time to (re-)start
- Further preparation
- Lifecycle stages
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15 The goal
- Productivity
- Efficiency
- Fast feedback
- Quality
- Cost
- Sustainability
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12 Automation is a product
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Part six: Execution
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Interfaces and deployment
- The kinds of interfaces
- Synchronous outgoing interfaces
- Considering all available interfaces
- Testability
- Deployment
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Speed
- Fully automated and reliable
- Automate or deploy differently
- Concurrent execution
- Prioritising checks
- Additional considerations
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Interfaces and deployment
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Part seven: Techniques
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- Related topics
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Architecture
- Value
- Lasting value (at reasonable cost)
- Cost
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- Notes
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