Test Automation and Continuous Testing Competition Week
A Practical and Fun Way to Create a Successful Test Automation and Continuous Testing Formula in Your Company
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Most software companies (or IT divisions) have no clue how to do automated functional testing or execute these tests in CI/CD. Not a believer? Check the end-to-end test reports in your CI server. Without executing automated end-to-end tests, there will be no ‘Delivery’ (of CD), right?
I am talking about the really useful automated testing that provides the teams useful and real feedback which will ultimately enable the software to “Ship early, ship often”. For those companies who have claimed that they are doing automated functional testing, what they have in common is that there are dozens of different non-working test automation frameworks/tools existing within the projects and the company. Subsequently, the outcome is the same: the automated testing is either failed already or is about to fail.
I still remember a meeting that was called by a newly-on-board test architect in a large organization. There were about 70 testers in the room. The test architect asked a representative from each team to shout out their test automation…
