Exploratory Testing and Automated Testing: Create a Healthy Relationship
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With the pressure of decreased time-to-market and the demand for error-free web applications, some people erroneously believe that test automation can solve all our defect woes. Dawn Jardine believes that neither test automation alone nor exploratory testing alone can solve quality issues. So, what is the best approach? Where do we invest our resources, time, and money so clients are happy with our product? How can automation and exploratory testing work together to obtain maximum test coverage? Join Dawn as she shares her experience of moving from a solely manual test case execution process to a combined automation and exploratory testing methodology. Learn how to apply critical thinking to automation and use creative energy during exploratory testing. Discover ways to modify your current test strategy to enable the QA team to deliver quality with confidence.
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- 3. 9/21/16 1 Exploratory & Automation Testing: Create a Healthy Relationship Dawn Jardine 2 Introduction
- 4. 9/21/16 2 3 Toronto, Canada 4 1 2 3 4 The Role of Test Automation Exploratory Testing and Its Role The Mutual Relationship How We Make it Work Agenda
- 5. 9/21/16 3 5 The Role of Test Automation 6 Why use automation?
- 6. 9/21/16 4 7 Automation can provide better coverage • for a large code base • when a live site is in maintenance mode • when it supplements manual testing 8 Automation can find defects earlier • finds defects introduced during sprint development • supports process of continuous test-and-fix in lower life cycle • reduces the cost of rework
- 7. 9/21/16 5 9 Automation speeds delivery to client • continuous integration and delivery during sprint • achieve 100% regression test case execution • release small and release often 10 When do you implement automation?
- 8. 9/21/16 6 11 The decision to use automation • current code base is growing • addition of new features and enhancements are increasing • completion time of manual test case execution is expanding • releases are occurring frequently 12 What do you automate?
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- 14. 9/21/16 12 23 “Assumptions are the termites of relationships” ~Henry Winkler 24 Build on the strengths of your team • trust • communication and collaboration • empowerment • confidence
- 15. 9/21/16 13 25 How We Make it Work The challenges and successes 26 The story • online retail e-commerce solution in production • automation in place for pre-release regression • an established agile process in development and delivery • QA test coverage was still the bottleneck
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- 17. 9/21/16 15 29 Be creative, be organized and be brave! • mind-mapping sessions for the high level scenarios • manual and automation team participation • absence of test steps • traceability by recording the results • organized a trial run for the regression cycle 30 Gain stakeholders support • business wants return on investment • transparency is key • continually inform • provide metrics
- 18. 9/21/16 16 31 Sample of metrics for status reports Manual Exploratory Tests Desktop Browsers OS/Devices Total Desktop Chrome FF IE11 MAC Safari IOS8 Chrome IOS9 Safari IOS8 Safari Android Chrome #of Test Cases 91 9 15 10 12 14 9 12 10 Pass 91 9 15 10 12 14 9 12 10 Fail 0 Blocked 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unexecuted 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Executed 91 9 15 10 12 14 9 12 10 Percentage ExecuHon Complete 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 32 Continued collaboration • ongoing audits of current and future release work • review recorded results from exploratory tests • Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!
- 19. 9/21/16 17 33 Benefits of testing style • the QA team’s confidence level grows • the project management can stick to release timelines • the business benefits by staying competitive 34 May 2014 • 261 manually executed step-by-step test cases • No automation in place • 6 days x 4 QAs January 2016 • 49 Exploratory Test cases • 1140 total automated tests covering 4 browsers • 3 days x 2 QAs with focus on Mobile vs Rewards & Results
- 20. 9/21/16 18 35 What’s next? • automate the mobile web and mobile app regression tests • streamline current exploratory tests • change the format of our sprint functional tests 36 Conclusion
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