Talking about Automation in Australia / New Zealand

I received a notification that the conference is rescheduled to 1 september, The conference website has been edited and the links in the below post no longer exist. I’ll keep you informed.

This friday the online Testing Conference will be held in Australia and New Zealand. The topics covered are Test Strategy, Leadership and DevOps / Digital QA and Emerging Technologies. I will be sharing my thoughts on test automation. For this special occasion I did three things.

a) I went into the archives and looked up an older presentation to remember how we looked at test-automation in the past
b) I compared these views with the state of automation and practises.
c) I hooked up with Eric de Graaf and Rene van Veldhuijzen to get a multi-angle view.

I had great fun integrating their contribution in the whole story. The result is a nice and entertaining story that we will share on 9 July.

I love to see you you there, you can register on the conference website.

Service Virtualization: build your own stub on the TAD

I am glad to announce that Maarten Metselaar and I will collaborate in an interactive workshop on the test automation day. Our session will deal with Service Virtualization.

An important subject since organisations are speeding up, striving for CI more and more. Fast delivery is cool, but it implies automated functional tests that can be run without dependencies on adjacent systems. You cannot test effectively when other systems in the chain are not available, not yet updated or expensive to use. Service virtualization enables to stub these systems in an effective manner and boosts the flexibility of your test execution. In this interactive session we’ll explain the principles and you’ll build your own stub, it’s easily done.

The test automation day will be held in Rotterdam on 23 June, our session starts at 15:50 h. We hope to see you there… You can get detailed info by downloading the conference flyer or on the website.

Test Automation Day – 23 June 2016

On 23 June the WTC in Rotterdam will host the 6th edition of the Test Automation Day. This unique conference is dedicated to test automation and aims to share insights and experiences of TA practitioners.

All aspects of testing need to continuously improve in quality, speed and efficiency, and this includes test automation. Despite new technologies, strategies and tools, Test Automation is too often not delivering the expected results. Why? Test Automation is about dealing with continuous change while at the same time keeping the balance between the professional, the tool and the process. But how is this best achieved? Find out on June 23rd during the International Platform for IT Management and IT professionals!

You can get detailed info by downloading the conference flyer or on the website.

Continues Cycles in Test Automation (the slides)

Yesterday Ard Kramer and I gave a presentation at the Test Automation Day in Rotterdam. The room was packed and the story told. In the presentation we shared our experience with introducing TA in the organization. Our story does not focus in individual tool and way to script, but we describe how to implement the change in the organization. This presentation describes the full circle…..

• First we bypassed the argument of Test and organizational maturity and made sure that the organization got started with learning how to do TA.
• Then we learned how to make a business case to get buy-in from the management
• Following we made an approach to satisfy different needs by different teams
• We learned how to make the solutions they found accessible for other teams by embedding TA in the organization
• To found out that maturity was a think not to be neglected.

View the slides of the presentation to learn how we dealt with this. The slides contain links to the previous presentations that we referred to during our talk also.

 

Test Automation Cycle

Today Ard Kramer and I will be talking about the continues cycles in Test Automation. It’s the 4th story in a row, and although the story stands on its own, it builds on from previous experiences that we shared.  The Test Automation cycle is depicted below. In the cycle you can see the voyage we made and the key lessons we learned. This model will be the back-bone of our TADNL presentation. Outside the circle we made reference to the previous talks we gave on the Test Automation Day. You can find them below:

2014

• http://www.slideshare.net/DerkJandeGrood/experience-story-implementing-test-automation-in-your-organization
• http://www.slideshare.net/DerkJandeGrood/implementing-test-automation

2013

• http://www.slideshare.net/DerkJandeGrood/im-looking-at-you-to-tell-me-should-i-automate-v10

2012

• http://www.slideshare.net/DerkJandeGrood/ta-day-door-to-open-or-to-lock-in-template-taday-v11

Sharing the 4th lesson of Test Automation on the Test Automation Day

Thursday 18 June the Test Automation Day will be held in the WTC Rotterdam. Together with Ard Kramer I will present the 4th lesson of test automation on the Test Automation Day. The presentation will be our experience story on the implementation of automation within organisations.

The 4th lesson, you might think?
What are the first three lessons? 

Especially for this occasion I dedicated my 15th edition of G(r)ood testing to this topic. You can read this column on the EuroSTAR community pages: G(r)ood testing 15: the 3+1 lessons of test automation. But you can watch the video also: