Patterns to Whole-Team Test Automation Transformation by Maaret Pyhajarvi #SeConf 2022
Channel: ConfEngine
Date: 2022-08-05

Looking back at test automation in a product development team for describing patterns of success for research purposes, we identified themes where the experienced success significantly differed from what the literature at large was describing. With those lessons, I moved to a new organization and took upon myself to facilitate a transformation to whole-team test automation over multiple teams, one at a time, one after the other. In this talk, we will revisit the research from one organization two years ago with lessons from another in the last two years. 

In this talk, I will introduce you to my core patterns to practice-based test automation transformation. I can't promise a recipe I would apply, as my recipe changes and adapts as I work through teams, but I can promise experiences of the same patterns working on multiple occasions as well as examples of how my go-to patterns turned out inapplicable. We'll discuss moving from specialist language to generalist language, visualizing testing debt and coverage, using visualization to showcase progress made of continuous flow of small changes, choosing to release based on automation no matter how little test automation there is, and growing individual competencies by sharing YOUR screen when working together. 

More details: https://confengine.com/conferences/selenium-conf-2022/proposal/16612

Conference Link: https://2022.seleniumconf.in