People and automat ion – a conversat ion UX? What about TX for Test Automation?

27-28 February 2017 LONDON

Isabel Evans Freelancer

Alan Richardson Compendium Developments EvilTester.com

27-28 February 2017 LONDON

“Automation and people” Are we technical enough? Are the problems that people report with tool adoption a problem of testers not being technical enough or of tools not being easy to use? Are we over emphasising the technical and ignoring the personal?

Theconversa,on:“Automa,onandpeople”Isabel’stheory:

•  Testautoma,onrequiresconsidera,onoftheUsereXperience(UX)forthetoolandthetests;

•  Peoplewhouseautoma,onmightnotalwaysbetechnicalbuttheyarealwayshuman;

•  UX-DesignandUX-Tes,ngfortestautoma,onsupportsimproveddecisionmakingandquality.

Isthiscorrect?

Theconversa,on:“Automa,onandpeople”•  Arewetechnicalenough?

•  Aretheproblemsthatpeoplereportwithtooladop,onaproblemoftestersnotbeingtechnicalenoughoroftoolsnotbeingeasytouse?

•  Areweoveremphasisingthetechnicalandignoringthepersonal?

Jointheconversa,onwithAlanandIsabelwherewe'lltalkaboutstufflike…

Theconversa,on:“Automa,onandpeople”Jointheconversa,onwithAlanandIsabelwherewe'lltalkaboutstufflike:

•  Whatlevelsoftechnicalskills,knowledgeandabilityarerequiredforsystemsdevelopment,andspecificallyfortes,ngac,vi,es?

•  Whatdowemeanby“Technical”?–justTechnical(IT)oralsoTechnical(Domain)?

•  Whattypesoftechnicalknowledgesupportourtes,ng(forexampletechnicalarchitecture,hardwareaswellassoUware,code,etc).

Theconversa,on:“Automa,onandpeople”Jointheconversa,onwithAlanandIsabelwherewe'lltalkaboutstufflike:

•  Howdowekeepuptodatewiththetechnologywetest?Ifnot,whynot?

•  Ifthe‘technicalpeople’ontheteamdon’tunderstandthesystem,howdoweiden,fytechnicalrisks?

•  Asthetoolsetweusematures,canwerelyonittosupportpeoplebeXer,orarethepeopledrivenbythetechnologytheyuse?

•  HowdoweimprovetheTester'sExperienceofautoma,ngandworkingwithmoretechnicalsystems?

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