benefits from aats
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Test Automation Benefits
“There’s no place for human beings to be doing regression testing manually.”
-Jez Humble
Save resources
Example:
More testing during development
Speedier deployments• Faster through the testing phase
• More likely the 1st deployment will be correct
Why don’t more people use them?
Reasons used for not having them
• Extra time to create them
• Learning Curve/Experience
• They can be more code than the actual software
• More to maintain
• They take time to run
Overcoming the Impediments
Browser API Services Domain DAL
• Limited paths• Smoke• Slow, hardest to maintain• More test setup required
than unit
• Closely-collaborating components
• Complex interactions, many permutations faster to test
Browser automation
JavaScript unit tests
API-level AATs (integration tests)
Integration tests
Integration tests
Unit testsUnit tests
• Complex query permutation
• Logic permutations
• Fastest • Isolated
• Fast• Checks any
UI• Processes /
preparing and what is sent to the API is ok
• Check business requirements
• Limited paths• Slower than
unit• More test
setup required than unit
Develop a Testing Strategy
Know what tests to write when
• Balance high # of unit tests + selected end-to-end & acceptance
• AATs should be a small portion of your test suite• Is your new feature entirely new?
Acceptance
Component
Unit
Black box
White box
End-to-end Business facing
Localized Technology facing
Testing Strategies
The First Tests…
• Find the most crucial and most changed functionality.
• Determine if the code is testable. If not, start with black box end-to-end tests.
• Once code is being covered by tests in some way, start refactoring it so unit tests can be written.
When a bug isn’t caught
• See why bug got through the existing unit/integration tests
• Add unit, integration tests for it
Unit
Test First Approach
• Create tests up front. Helps guide code creation and makes it easier to think through the functionality, and tests.
• Start using TDD when appropriate
Champion Testing
• Show the data on how automated testing reduces bugs, results in better architected code, and saves time and money.
• Coach team members who don’t have enough experience
• Pair program
• Review open source projects test strategies and code
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