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Session 902
Agile Test Automation
Werner Keil, Director, Creative Arts & Technologies
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Agenda
25 minutes
• Intro
• Process
• Tools
• Framework
30 minutes
• Demo
• Q&A
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Intro

Main Trend:
Move away from
Waterfall to
Lean and Agile
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Intro

How does Agile affect

Software Testing?
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Agile Values and Principles

Values
• Communication
• Simplicity
• Feedback
• Courage
• Respect
• Transparency
• Trust
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Agile Values and Principles

Principles
• Eliminate Waste
• Build Quality In
• Create Knowledge
• Deliver Fast
• Respect People
• Optimize the Whole
Agile Manifesto
In February 2001, 17 software
developers met at a ski resort in
Snowbird, Utah, to discuss lightweight
development methods. They published
the "Manifesto for Agile Software
Development" © agilemanifesto.org
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A
Salt Lake

© solarnavigator.net
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Another
Salt Lake

© Gujarat Tourism Bureau

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Roles
Roles in an Agile team
• Product Owner
• Domain Expert
• Developer
• Tester
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Roles

Tester’s role in a new

Agile world
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Responsibilities
• Requirements Management and
Analysis
• Helping Business with Requirements
• Helping Developers with Test Data
preparation and Unit Testing
• Test Execution
• Test Automation
• Exploratory Testing
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Responsibilities

No more
Quality
Police!
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Responsibilities
Build Quality in
• Whole team responsible for quality
• Not just Test Engineers
• TDD
• Tester as Helper
• Aim for zero defect rate
• Though some may call that insane ;-)
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Technical Practices
• Iterative process
• Continuous integration
• Refactoring
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Process
The Four D’s of Agile Development
• Discuss
• Decide
• Develop
• Demonstrate
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Process
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Tools
Test Harness
• JUnit
• TestNG
• etc.
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Tools
Driver
• Selenium | WebDriver
• SoapUI
• Arquillian
• etc.
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Tools
Functional
• Concordion
• FitNesse
• Cucumber
• easyB
• Eclipse Jubula
• etc.
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Selenium 2
Selection Criteria
• Self Contained
• Browser Support
• Scripting in Java
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Selenium 2
This won‘t work
at least
under
Windows
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Concordion
No
acceptance
tests written
like this...
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Concordion
Write them
like this
instead...
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Concordion
Clear tests lead to clear
fixture code
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Concordion
Active Specification
• Plain English requirements
• Acceptance tests in form of real life
examples
• Can be executed against SUT
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Framework
Pages
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Framework
Personas?
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Framework
Personas
Fictional – but realistic – character sketches
based on a break-down of the target
audience into groups of users that exhibit
common characteristics. They are created
using knowledge drawn from previous
research, for example user groups and
surveys that have been carried out with
actual users.
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Framework
Testing
Cloud
Time for a

DEMO
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