• Using and Managing Automation Like a Boss — With Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick

  • Aug 23 2022
  • Duración: 52 m
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  • Welcome to another episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development.   This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick are accompanied by John Gravitte to today's episode, John is the former Senior Director of Validation and current Market Unit Technology Head at Agile Thought.   Key Takeaways If there is one myth about automation as it relates to quality: What would it be? Quality is not just executing test cases, it is a Team activity, and everyone is responsible for quality.Not all test cases are good candidates for automation. What is one of the biggest banned from the book actions that an organization can take to prove the quality stands? Including the quality professionals from the start. Get them involved in creating the stories and looking through the acceptance criteria.Include quality professionals in every meeting and let them decide if a meeting is valuable for them to attend or not.The more involvement the quality professionals have the more they will understand how to test it. What makes quality testing so challenging? Nothing stays the same, data changes, tables change, and even the database configuration changes, that is why achieving quality is very challenging. Why is quality important? Do organizations and clients understand why they want quality? Quality is reputation. A bad experience using the product can negatively affect the client’s reputation. What is one thing related to quality and automation that John has learned the hard way?. In regard to quality, never cut corners (you will pay the consequences). Always document your findings, so you can prove what you have done.Don’t be so quick to purchase a new automated tool without doing the research about the skill set that is present in the quality assurance group. Get to know the big picture first. Managing risk and quality when quality is one of the first things to get disregarded. Documenting assumptions at the beginning is important, when you see risk, document where you saw it, and explain to the client or boss what the consequences could be for a certain decision. Keep the focus on the outcome.Have Plan A and Plan B.Collaborate with the Team and listen to others’ ideas, you don’t have to do it all on your own. What do non-technical people need to know about quality and automation testing? First, they need to know that it is not one person's responsibility, it is an entire Team’s effort.You need to be available to answer questions.Test engineers need to understand the core workflow. You need to run test automation every day to ensure quality. What do test automation engineers need to understand about business and business people? You need to meet the business people to really understand the core workflow and to get to know more about the application and how is it being used. This will help you to automate the right test cases.Showcase the automation, run it for the client, and let them see it, a lot of business people don’t know how it functions. Best practices to educate the client. Have a client engagement kickoff to explain the process including how the quality is managed.Have a quality playbook to educate the customer, and even have two, one for manual testing and the other for automation. That playbook must include roles and responsibilities, so the client can understand terms and who does what. What is a demand trend for quality in Automation testing and why? A lot of companies want to do test automation because their test bed is so large. Does DevOps even exist without automation? How tied are those practices together? DevOps and automation are intimately connected to get some automation in the pipeline and the processes of deployments.In reality, DevOps are still part of automation, but it can happen without test automation, in depends on the approach. What does it take to sustain the Quality effort? A repeatable process is needed in order to maintain Quality effort.Keep the right mindset and tools, but overall keep constant communication, transparency is essential. What does it take to thrive as a Test Automation Engineer? Constant education. Never stop self-educating, never stay with only one tool.A Test Automation Engineer needs to have an understanding of the application architecture that is being built, its layers, and which are optimum for automation.     Want to Learn More or Get in Touch? Visit the website and catch up with all the episodes on AgileThought.com! Email your thoughts or suggestions to Podcast@AgileThought.com or Tweet @AgileThought using #AgileThoughtPodcast!
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