Useful Automation

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Sergey Tupchiy, Automation QA Architect

http://github.com/stupchiy

http://ua.linkedin.com/in/stupchiy

AKA

WHO AM I?

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Why you need automation?

• Why we should do Automated Testing?

Faster Bug Determining Faster Releases Faster Testing Less Efforts of Manual Testers Less Efforts of Developers Saves Time Increase Accuracy Improves Coverage Reusability Automation can save money

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Problems

• Need to be more technical person• Need to learn something new• Need to do programming• Need to do not your work • Record & Run tools don't give good feedback• A lot of efforts needed

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Problems

• You need to use project TIME• You need a lot of TIME to automate• You have no TIME• You need to waste your own TIME

IT's all about TIME

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EXAMPLE

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Beginning

How to start?

• Take the basics• Start to learn programming• Ask for help from developers• Determine Repeatable tasks

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Beginning

What to start automate?

• Covering annoying manual tests• Test Data Preparation• DB insertions

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EXAMPLE

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Programming

How to learn programming?

Ruby• http://learnruby.com/• http://rubykoans.com/Perl• http://cpan.org• http://learn.perl.org/Python http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ http://www.learnpython.org/And a lot more

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Programming

Advantages of LanguagesAdvantages of LanguagesPerl

Better text processing Regular expression support Cpan.org

Python Readability and cleaner code Easy variables Learnability

Ruby Better OOP Flexibility and Consistency

Bash Everything you can do in *nix like terminal

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EXAMPLE

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About Tools

Compatibility • Is the tool compatible with the application? Does it

identify all the objects in your application?• Identify different classes of object in the

application. (Standard controls & customized)• Identify different possible events for each

object (mouse over, mouse down, type, drag, etc)

• Record and Playback for aboveFunctionality

• Rate the application against the features list required for automation team (Evaluation Criterion)

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About Tools

Usability • How easy it is to learn and adapt? • Availability of trainings.

Maintainability• How good is support by the company. • Online user community?

Flexibility• Licensing policy of the company (This points is here

thanks to the rigid licensing policies of some companies

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EXAMPLE

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And Remember The Rules

There is no easy way sometimes

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And Remember The Rules

Don't be afraid

PYTHON PERL RUBY

Or Bash, JAVA, ActionScript, JS, bla, bla, bla

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Thank You!

QUESTIONS ?