Functional Testing A to Z

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1. Functional Testing from Acceptance Criteria to Zip Files

2. Me jim@GuidepostSystems.com @aJimHolmes FrazzledDad.com Bit.ly/leadershipjourney

3. Today’s Goal: Get you pointed in the right direction for

   learning more

4. What We’re Covering What’s automated functional testing? Get your expectations

   right at the start Tools for automating functional tests Writing your tests Common pitfalls (and how to avoid them)

5. Workshop Format

6. Eight hours

7. Breaks, FTW

8. Talks Demos Hands On

9. ~ four – six hours of content

10. After that YOU pick stuff to play with!

11. What’s Automated Functional Testing?

12. (and how’s it differ from web to desktop?)

13. Set your expectations early

14. (or you will #FAIL)

15. “Let’s automate all our 3,495 Excel test cases!”

16. None

17. Focus on value Look and feel

18. “How many UI tests?”

19. “As few as possible.”

20. UI tests are part of your automation strategery

21. Tools for automated functional testing

22. UI Automation Architecture Driver Test Framework Automation Framework

23. Free / Open Source Selenium / WebDriver Watir WatiN Telerik

    Testing Framework

24. What’s the fuss about Record / Playback?

25. Commercial QuickTest Pro Visual Studio’s Web Test Telerik Test Studio

26. None

27. First Test: Just get it going

28. Second Test: Let’s talk locators

29. Third Test: More locators

30. Fourth Test: Refactoring

31. Dealing With AJAX (or any async action)

32. Fifth Test: AJAX in Action

33. Sixth Test: More refactoring

34. Page Object Pattern

35. Looking Back at Our Earlier Tests

36. Practical Problems and Solutions

37. Word-wheel type searches (AJAXy stuff)

38. Flexible Find Logic

39. Me Jim@GuidepostSystems.com @aJimHolmes FrazzledDad.com

40. This deck is licensed Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA-NC