Contemporary Test Cases

Talk for Software Testing Finland.

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1. © 2024 CGI Inc. 1 Contemporary Test Cases Maaret Pyhäjärvi November 2024
2. © 2024 CGI Inc. 2 Let’s talk about processes, inputs and outputs Testing Where are test cases?
3. © 2024 CGI Inc. 3 Testing is… Artifact creation Transform: requirements to stories with acceptance criteria to tests Plan-driven: test cases are input to testing Valuing instructions that can be followed by others Scripted. Performance Perform: product is external imagination, and we are researching for information Exploratory: test cases are output of testing Valuing ideas that can be communicated forward Exploratory.
4. © 2024 CGI Inc. 4 External imagination makes performance better. 4 Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash
5. © 2024 CGI Inc. 5 Timeline Test cases Evidence-driven stepwise tests. Chartered Session-based test management. Exclusion of checking. Agile Whole-team charters. And examples going into automation. Gherkin as format of executable specs. Modern Automation. Automation. Automation. We don’t really talk about the other. Contemporary If you invest in detailed tests, you invest in automation. If you invest in collections of ideas, test management tools help track repeated use of ideas. Artifacts Performance Artifacts Artifacts Performance Artifacts
6. © 2024 CGI Inc. 6 Discussion of tasks and tests 6 Task Open-ended Timeboxed Review completion is a testing side of a task Feature Theme Review completion is a testing side of a feature Test case Detailed and open-ended Detailed Timeboxed Repeated for replenishing results We have different tool features to manage repeated tasks
7. © 2024 CGI Inc. 7 Discussion of tasks and tests 7 Task Feature Test case Collection of things worth repeating Drives selection of repeating 1 10 1 10
8. © 2024 CGI Inc. 8 Getting away with code What if we did not need a test case management system because green from programmatic tests was meaningful? 8
9. © 2024 CGI Inc. 9 * Runnable with pytest-bdd Document test cases in context of code
10. © 2024 CGI Inc. 10 Python is language just as much as Gherkin
11. © 2024 CGI Inc. 11 Gherkin is language just as much as Python
12. © 2024 CGI Inc. 12 Optimizing tests for reading Output with consideration of what is worth reading later. Writing less means having to read less! 12
13. © 2024 CGI Inc. 13 Elizabeth Zagroba’s concise template adapted from Elizabeth Hendrickson’s template Charters
14. © 2024 CGI Inc. 14 Imagine exploring from generated charters
15. © 2024 CGI Inc. 15 Feature – Story with acceptance criteria 15
16. © 2024 CGI Inc. 16 Title level tests
17. © 2024 CGI Inc. 17 Title tagging practice 17 [Feature] [Release] [Explore] [Scenario] ß a 4-hr timebox, attach latest run of automation results Inventory of features that grew with stories à Reserving time, like a charter à ß no greater inspiration than a story of a user
18. © 2024 CGI Inc. 18 A Jira HowTo – Testing Board / Test Execution 18 Add existing tests based on frequent change analysis Keep tests title level, no steps! Communicate need of more time to test with statuses All things testing in the hamburger menu
19. © 2024 CGI Inc. 19 Traceability Report with Reusable Tests 19 Test execution maps to release and allows per release reports
20. © 2024 CGI Inc. 20 Improve first –thinking. 20 https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/maaret-pyhajarvi-is- revolutionizing-software-testing-at-cgi-artificial- intelligence-is-like-an-external- imagination/0765bc05-c989-4f9e-b882- 33604c165d8e
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