Functional Testing A to Z

Slides from a full-day workshop on Functional Testing.

Updated for presentation at CodeMash 2015.

Transcript

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!”
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
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