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Becming a Testing Craftsman

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Us! • Trish Khoo • @hogfish • Jim Holmes • @aJimHolmes

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Why Craftsmanship? ● Draws from other craftsmanship movements ● Emphasizes continual learning ● Values interactions with others as critical

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Marshmallow challenge ● Form groups of 4 ● You should have: 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 metre of string, 1 metre of tape and 1 marshmallow. ● Build the tallest free-standing structure you can. The marshmallow must be on top. ● You have 18 minutes!

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ENVIRONME NT MASTERY

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Knowing Your Environment • Setting things up • Virtual Machines • Provisioning & Configuring • Mastering your environment • What are all the moving parts?

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Demo Deploying Applications Working With Logs

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Exercise Mine a log

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CREATING DATA

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Baseline Datasets • Why use them? • What “shape” do you need?

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Making Baseline Data • Create from scratch • SQL, code, scripts • Tools

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Making Baseline Data • Use existing automation • Steal from an existing source • Cleanse privacy info

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Demo Creating Random Data

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Exercise Envisioning a dataset

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Exercise Building Datasets

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JIGS

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Jigs • A Jig: one-off tool, template, guide • Scripts • Hotkeys • Regular expressions

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Demo • Handy “jig” scripts • PowerShell • Bash • Ruby

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Demo • Handy tools • ZoomIt • Text editors • Launchers

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Group Exercise Create a jig script

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Exercise How can you use these new tools for testing problems you’re currently working on?

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AUTOMATIO N

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Demo Examples of test approaches in different contexts

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Tools for Testing • Automation • Differencing • Hard things • Mail

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One off tools • Custom comparisons • Configuration / setup

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Other tricks • Searching • File processing • OS process spelunking • Network monitoring

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Exercises Creating test jigs Writing tests

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Exercise How can you use these new tools for testing problems you’re currently working on?

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CRAFTING A TEST APPROACH

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Exercise How can you use these new tools for testing problems you’re currently working on?

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Us! • Trish Khoo • @hogfish • Jim Holmes • @aJimHolmes

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Exercise Create a deployment script

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Links This presentation: http://goo.gl/4VtFNz Ruby jig exercise worksheet: http://goo. gl/HAr4dR