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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:

Implementing Test Automation, a story about changing insights and experiences

Today I gave a presentation on the Test Automation day. In this presentation I explain a simple strategy for implementing Test Automation in your organization. A simple strategy? I tell the story of my experience so far and look back in retrospective to the presentations I gave at the Test Automation Day before.
In this presentation I state that:

  • Organizational Maturity (like measured with TPI or TMMi) should not raise a threshold for getting started
  • In order to become good in Test Automation, we need to get started and learn from our mistakes (fail forward)
  • There is a shift from technology and tool selection toward selling the business case
  • But the real implementation is a process of organizational change, where people, and budgets play a key role.
  • People need to learn their new roles, need to work with new processes and you need to have a good story if you want to interfere with projects.
  • In the end, I conclude that once you completed the journey, and got the organization to start with test automation, you end up with the technical challenges again: What tool are you going to use, what architecture, and how do you write effective scripts….

A simple strategy? I am still learning.

 

 

The above presentation was preceded by a presentation from Ard Kramer. Today he gave this presentation alone, previously we gave this presentation together at the Dutch testing conference. The topics are very much related and its slides can be found here:

 

Test Automation Day 2014

The 4th edition of the Test Automation day will be organized in June 2014. That may seem a long way ahead, but the call for papers has been started.

The conference is truly dedicated to test automation, and that makes it special. Visitors from all over the world evaluated the 2013 edition as valuable but, they also asked for more “innovative” topics. So the challenge lies with us….who can share his innovation on this conference?

The Call for papers runs up to 18 November, and more info can be found on the conference website…www.testautomationday.com

If you missed the event last year, have a look at my video impression and learn what your colleague testers got out of the day.

Test Automation day 2013

Yesterday the 3rd Edition of the Test Automation Day was held in Rotterdam. There are not many conferences that are truly dedicated to test automation, and that makes this conference special. I was trilled to encounter an American delegate, that came all the way to the Netherlands, because he was looking for a specialist conference. As you can see in the video impression I made of the day, he was not disappointed. On the contrary he enjoyed himself and was really enthusiastic about the things he’d learned. Like many of the delegates I spoke.

If you missed the event, have a look at my video impression and learn what your colleague testers got out of the day.