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Automated Testing Beyond The Basics

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Slides: SpeakerDeck.com/JimHolmes

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A Story of Woe

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What’s YOUR Current State?

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Slow

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Brittle

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High Maintenance Cost

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WTFITWBWH

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What The Fuck is Tested By What Where How HECK

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Trust Deficit

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Automation’s Goals?

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Teams Test!

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TRUST

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Let’s Talk Fixes

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First and Foremost: Be Thoughtful

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Good Coverage

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Reduce Overlap

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Fix: TALK!

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Understand Data Flows

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Fix: MORE TALK!

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Don’t Test Stupid Stuff

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Don’t Test Low Value Less Optimal Stuff That Someone’s Already Tested Or Is a Dependency You Don’t Want

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Gmail 3rd Party Controls CAPCHA SharePoint

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Test Code is Production Code!

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Software Craftsmanship

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DRY Don’t Repeat Yourself

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SRP Single Responsibility Principle

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Cucumber => Step Definitions

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CopyProductCatalogItem EditProductCatalogItem DeleteProductCatalogItem TransmitBookingOrder HandleRejectedBookingOrder WashJimsCar FixJimsCar ReplaceJimsCarEngineWithRocket

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CopyProductCatalogItem GetAProductItem EditProductCatalogItem GetAProductItem DeleteProductCatalogItem GetAProductItem

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Domain Objects

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ProductCatalogItem BookingOrder JimsCar CarEngine RocketAdapter CasketForJim

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ProductCatalogItem GetAProductItem

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LogUserOn FindUserName UserName.SendText(“Jim”) CheckUserIsLoggedOn FindUserName UserName==“Jim” CheckInvalidUserCan’tLogOn FindUserName UserName.SendText(“B0b”)

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Page Objects

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LogonPage UserName

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LogUserOn LogonPage.UserName=“Jim” CheckUserIsLoggedOn “Jim” == LogonPage.UserName CheckInvalidUserCan’tLogOn LogonPage.UserName=“B0b”

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Test Data

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Don’t Use UI Tests to Set up or Configure

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Baseline Datasets

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Store Datasets in Version Control!

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Custom APIs

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Help tests be granular, random, and independent

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Support APIs leverage existing system APIs

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Create Retrieve Update Delete

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Setup and Teardown

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Oracles

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FSAPITBAA

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Freaking Stupid Assed Pain In The Butt Async Actions

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SharePoint

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Test in Isolation Minimize End-to- End

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Speed

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Parallelization Solves Everything!

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Fix Your Dang System!

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bit.ly/3HoursTo3Mins

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Takeaways:

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Automate High-Value, High Risk

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Avoid Overlapping Coverage

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Test Code is Production Code

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Manage Your Data

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Build Out APIs

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Avoid End-To- End

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Parallelization as LAST RESORT

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Slides: SpeakerDeck.com/ JimHolmes

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[email protected] FrazzledDad.com @aJimHolmes

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bit.ly/leadershipjourney

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THANK YOU

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0) No SharePoint

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B) Hug your loved ones RIGHT NOW