Automation As An Ally
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Automation as an Ally discusses how to lead a cultural shift towards test automation by automating repetitive and mundane tasks. It recommends automating software installations, configurations, tests across different hardware and operating systems with varying inputs. The document also suggests using global variables and helper suites to easily reuse code and build up test automation complexity gradually. It describes how Eggplant AI can visually model systems and test coverage. Finally, it provides examples of specific tasks that can be automated like demos, timing tests, using Excel to manage labs, and automating other scripts for comprehensive system checks.
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Automation As An Ally
- 1. Automation as an Ally October 10, 2019 Chad Kennedy Lindsey Rominsky
- 2. eggplanet 2019 Overview • Leading the Effort – The Cultural Shift (Individual) • Leading the Effort – The Cultural Shift (Team) • Our Approach on What to Automate • Our Approach on How to Automate • Eggplant AI • Automate Anything • Automate Anything (Particular Time Savers) • Summary
- 3. eggplanet 2019 Leading the Effort – The Cultural Shift (Individual) • Cost benefit/ROI • Create Videos and Screenshots for demos to management, customers, training and Quality Assurance • Paradigm Shift to all • Utility is simplistic • Creativity encouraged • Why do we need to automate • Repeatability • Reliability • Speed • Record-Keeping Reliability Repeatabili ty Speed Record- Keeping
- 4. Leading the Effort • Management/Leadership too critical • Making the effort the same • What’s wrong with our methods • ‘Party pooper’ mentality • Micro-management The Cultural Shift (TEAM)
- 5. eggplanet 2019 Our Approach on What to Automate • Automate anything mundane/tedious tasks that are done repeatedly • Automate uninstall and install • Automate setup/configurations/check versions • Automate tests to run in different configurations • On different hardware • On different operating systems • Using different data inputs • Automate tests to run for a certain period of time (x hours or x tasks) • Automate running multiple tests for load bearing performance numbers • If it is on the screen, automate it
- 6. eggplanet 2019 Our Approach on How To Automate • Make automation easy and simple to maintain • Use global variables and/or database to control variables • Use Helper Suites to easily re-use code • Automate test procedures • Start with simple, mundane tests that are run more often (smoke test) • Build up functions for re-use • Add in complexity as you go • Test Report • Simple view of results for Management and Customer
- 7. eggplanet 2019 Eggplant AI • Completely different approach that melds the entire product’s lifecycle • Mirrored prototype • Matured model as code matured • Provides pretty pictures (models) to represent the system to both technical and non-technical people • Visual Maintenance of the system • Visually show the system and its interactions • Visually show test coverage
- 8. Automate Anything • Demos • Installs/Uninstalls/Verify versions • Win7 vs Win10, Windows vs Linux, RDP vs VNC, old machines vs new • Timing Tests: Loop for 10 hours or loop for 1000 tasks • Use excel files to manage/update labs • Orchestrate other scripts and tools for a comprehensive system checkout
- 9. Automate Anything (Particular Time Savers) • Automate Automation • Document inspections
- 10. eggplanet 2019 Summary • Test automation is a powerful process that can be tailored to the application and required outcome • Automation has the potential to be better, faster, and cheaper than its manual counterpart when properly planned and executed • Create videos, screenshots and reports for other purposes [email protected] [email protected] © 2019 Lockheed Martin Corporation