Ten Tips for Better Web UI Automation Tests

Totally new deck presented at CodeMash 2015.

This talk is ten tips for helping teams create, run, and maintain successful UI test automation suites. You'll take away concrete ideas around focusing on business value, nailing technical aspects, and building great communication around your tests.

Several of the tips apply to ALL kinds of automated testing--and one or two apply to all testing, period.

Transcript

1. Ten Tips for Web UI Automation Testing (Or how to succeed instead of suck) ? ?
2. Jim Holmes Guidepost Systems Jim@GuidepostSystems.com @aJimHolmes http://bit.ly/leadershipjourney
3. Goals for this session
4. Get ideas on what to go back home and learn
5. Area One: Focus on Business
6. Tip 1: Automate high value workflows
9. There’s much you can automate
10. There’s little you should
11. Tip 2: Set expectations up and down
12. You need time
13. You need resources
14. You need people
15. Tip 3: Invest in selecting right toolset for your team
16. What’s your goal for automation?
17. What’s your team’s skills?
18. Who’s creating automation? Who’s maintaining it?
19. Who’s using automation?
20. Area Two: Focus on Technical
21. Tip 4: Learn your system’s Locators
24. Tip 5: Learn your system’s Asynch
26. Tip 6: Create Helpers
28. Tip 7: Configure system for testing
29. How do you automate tests for CAPCHA ?
30. Don’t
31. Area Three: Focus on Communication
32. Tip 8: Get serious about Collaboration
34. Tip 9: Communicate Early
35. The best testing happens before a single line of code is written
36. Tip 10: Get fanatical about Feedback Loops
37. Whole Team Testing means TALK TO SUPPORT
38. Retrospectives
39. FAILURES
40. Thank You!
41. Jim Holmes Guidepost Systems Jim@GuidepostSystems.com @aJimHolmes http://bit.ly/leadershipjourney