Exploring Automation Strategies and Frameworks What Should Your Team Be Using?

Agile DC 2017 Talk

Agile practices have done a magnificent job of speeding up the software development process. Unfortunately, simply applying agile practices to testing isn’t enough to keep testers at the same pace. Test automation is necessary to support agile delivery. Max Saperstone explores popular test automation frameworks and shares the benefits of applying these frameworks, their implementation strategies, and best usage practices. Focusing on the pros and cons of each type of framework, Max discusses data-driven, keyword-driven, and action-driven approaches. Find out which framework and automation strategy are most beneficial for specific situations.

Other than using specific frameworks as examples, the presentation is framework agnostic, really focusing on capabilities of different types of framework, and how those might or might-not fit your company’s/software’s needs. In the talk, 5 different types of frameworks will be discussed: Record/Playback (Linear), Modular/Structured, Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Action Based, and of course the combination of these as Hybrids.

At the end of the talk, depending on questions, and how much time we have left, a slide with a long list of specific testing frameworks is displayed, and an open discussion of who has used what, and what has/hasn’t worked for them is had.

If you are new to test automation or trying to optimize your current automation strategy, this session is for you.