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I have another short video for you here. This one explains one proven approach to getting high return on investment for your test automation.

 


Video: Getting good results from test automation
Published Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:06 PM by SaintD

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I. M. Testy said:

It seems that many test automation efforts around the industry tend to focus on GUI automation, or automating

March 27, 2008 9:13 PM
 

Shrini said:

What is your solution/recommendation for IT/IT Services scenario ...

Bottom up automation approach  is not feasible here due to following approach

1.  Developm and testing is typically outsourced.

2.  Testers and developers are from different groups/companies

3. Test designers and automators are not same

4.  Test automation people from IT services side are not coders ... they know only how to use "easy to use" GUI tool - no background of programming or any technical stuff .. Black box/business testers with some tool knowledge  ...

5.  People hardly care about "test matrices" -- an IT application typically has a set of defined platforms ... there is hardly any big multi platform testing that happens

Shrini

June 8, 2008 1:47 AM
 

SaintD said:

Sorry for taking so long to respond shrini!

I have some solutions for you. First, hire at least on automation savvy tester. Second hold developers accountable for delivering unit tests that provide 60%+ code coverage.

My philosophy applies the 80/20. In other words, 80% of programming can follow this pattern to good effect. 20% is in the "managed exception" world. You just have to get creative.

If you are doing nothing but manual testing, the sun will go out before you can prove the applications works for more than just the core scenarios. Maybe those are enough for your application.

September 12, 2008 7:59 PM
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About SaintD

Dustin Andrews has been testing software at Microsoft since 2001. He currently programs primary in C# and has loved it ever since he learned it had a good regex class. He came from the industry where he has been an ISP unix admin, Perl and SQL developer, dev lead, help desk technician and manager. He has also waited tables, worked many long nights as a convenience store clerk disinfected shoes in a bowling alley and done other jobs he has blocked out of his memory. He is currently in the Unlimited Potential Group as a Server Test Lead.

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