Test Automation
FULL-DAY WORKSHOP
Rapid Software Testing Focused: Automation
“Test Automation” is a hot topic. If you are in the testing field, then you are probably being pressured to automate your work. But how should you go about it? Only certain specific aspects of testing can be automated, so which aspects should you focus on first? There are lots of expensive tools you could use, but there are also free tools, and maybe you can create some tools yourself. What should you NOT focus on? What traps must you try to avoid? How can AI help or hurt?
Creating, applying, and maintaining useful automation to support testing can be immensely valuable. If you want to do it well, it can also be a huge challenge. This workshop is designed to help you meet that challenge, looking through the lenses of the Rapid Software Testing methodology.
Maybe you’re a coder; maybe you’re not. This workshop is designed to help you either way. If you don’t write code, you won’t be taught how to, but you will learn to work immediately and productively with people who do.
In this workshop, Michael Bolton will help you, and in turn your organisation, to expand notions of automation beyond GUI or API output checking. He will show you some creative uses of inexpensive tools to probe data. He’ll present tools that can help you visualise and report on test coverage. He’ll help you to analyse dimensions of cost and value, and to evaluate how different kinds of tools can help or hurt your testing. And he’ll talk about how to recognise and learn from things that happen in the Secret Life of Automation.
What you’ll learn
In this workshop you will learn to:
What you’ll need
Participants must bring their laptops to connect to the external training environment.
Workshop details
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is a consulting software tester and testing teacher who helps people to solve testing problems that they didn’t realize they could solve. In 2006, he became co-author (with James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing (RST), a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly and credibly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Since then, he has flown over a million miles to teach RST in 35 countries on six continents. Michael has over 30 years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. For over 20 years, he has led DevelopSense, a Toronto-based testing and development consultancy.