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RAMP up your testing solution: test automation patterns

In order to be able to meet the quality requirements of today’s applications, the expected level of automation is massively increasing year by year. Everyone is automating. But while we are the pioneers of using test automation on such a large scale today, it might make sense to think about tomorrow, when we have to keep the test infrastructure running for many years more. It is easy to get to a quick win, but we need better architectural solutions and patterns to preserve the benefits of the success.

A good test infrastructure should aim for Reusability, Abstraction, Maintainability and Performance (RAMP). In this talk Gaspar will show why these patterns and generally pattern-based thinking is useful for test automation for better maintainability, flexibility and collaboration between the different roles. Gaspar works with Seb Rose on the next book in their BDD Books series, that focuses on test automation patterns that work well with BDD. In the presentation Gaspar shows a few examples from the book to illustrate how an automation pattern might look like and how it can be documented.

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Gáspár Nagy

Gáspár Nagy, the creator of SpecFlow & Reqnroll, bringing over 20 years of experience as a coach, trainer and test automation expert nowadays through his company, called Spec Solutions. He is the co-author of the books “Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples” and “Formulation: Document examples with Given/When/Then” (http://bddbooks.com) and also leads SpecSync, aiding teams in test traceability with Azure DevOps and Jira. Gáspár shares his insights at conferences, emphasizing his commitment to helping teams implement Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).