Marie Cruz
Marie is a software tester and also a tech blogger at testingwithmarie.com where she talks about testing and test automation in general. Currently, she works as a Developer Advocate for k6.io
Tooling for Automated Testing
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Ruby (Selenium, Capybara)
Perl monolith
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Issues (testing perspective)
- Features/changes take a long time to be deployed
- QE team spends a lot of time on automation maintenance
- Automation codebase not in synced with project codebase
- Developers depend on QE to write automated tests
... and many more!
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Project Bedrock
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We want all Engineers to be responsible for Testing and Quality!
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We want to automate as much as possible so we have more time doing human based testing.
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We want everyone to have a great developer experience and enable all Engineers to release features by themselves.
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Unit
Integration
UI
High Maintenance
Slow
Difficult
Cheap
Fast
💰💰💰
😫 😫 😫
Test Automation Pyramid
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Test Automation Wheel
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Our current tooling for automated testing
Jest
Sitespeed
React Testing Library
Terraform
Detox
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How did the team choose a Test Automation tool?
- Think about our testing requirements
- Assess the skillset of the team
- Consider the technology stack
- Can it integrate easily to our pipeline?
- Is it easy to debug when failures occur?
- License cost of the tool?
- Analysis and comparison with other similar tools
- Finalise decision and own it!
- Iterate for improvements
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How did we get buy-ins?
- Explaining the benefits clearly
- Explain that not everything can be automated
- Getting developers involve with decision making
- Collaboration and regular feedback
- Support from leadership team
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Challenges that we faced
- Legacy automation framework maintenance
- Speed of pipeline
- Self hosted Gitlab and integration with other tools
- Not able to do Contract testing on legacy APIs
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Future Plans (Continuous Improvements)
- Improve Contract Testing workflow
- Improve Visual Testing workflow (Percy 2.0)
- Introduce basic automated accessibility checks on various pages
- Browser Performance Testing on feature branches
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Let's look at some tools!
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Example: Cypress
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How does it integrate?
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Example: Percy
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How does it integrate?
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Example: k6
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How does it integrate?
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K6 + New Relic Dashboard
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Example: Pact
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How does it integrate?
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Example: New Relic
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Thank you!
Questions? 😊
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Tooling for Automated Testing
By Marie Cruz
