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Test Automation: Don't report the bugs it catches

Automation, continuous improvement, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Reading time: 3 minutes Don’t report the bugs your test automation catches. Report the reduction in uncertainty that the system works. When you report the bugs you send the signal that test automation is there to catch bugs. But that’s…

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Exploratory and Automated testing: Using the right techniques in the wrong contexts

Checks Vs Testing, contract testing, feedback, quality, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Exploratory testing is about testing in an unpredictable context and therefore detecting unpredictable failures in our software. Automated testing is about testing in a predictable context and therefore detecting predictable failures. The mistake we make with automation is we try to apply it to the wrong context

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My biggest takeaways from AgileTD 2020: The future of testers isn’t in automation or testing

Agile, Collaboration, Kanban, leaders, leadership, links, psychological safety, Quality Awareness, talks, Test automation, testability, Tips, TOC, videos

I was lucky enough to speak at AgileTD this year and also attend some of the talks. These are my main takeaways from the conference based on the talks that I was able to make. My confirmation bias sense is tingling with this but… The…

Building a quality culture: Is it quality assurance or quality awareness?

QA, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Tips

A way to see if the work your are doing in your team is about building team awareness or team assurance of quality

How to document Unit Testing

Collaboration, documentation, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Whenever you talk about unit testing with teams they never tell you what it means to them. They go straight to of course we do and show you 100s of passing tests. Interesting thing is by calling it unit testing everyone thinks they are talking…

What is Contract Testing?

consumer-driven contract testing, contract testing, feedback, Test automation, Testing, unit testing

And Consumer-driven contract testing This is a follow on from Contract testing: Why do it First some quick definitions: Consumer Is someone (a dev team for instance) that makes use of a third party component or a combination of components…

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Contract Testing, Why do it?

consumer-driven contract testing, contract testing, feedback, Test automation, Testing, unit testing

I’ve been thinking a lot about contract testing lately and trying to explain why it’s a good idea. I thought I’d start by getting my initial arguments for it down and go from there. Got an opinion then let me know. Note:…

The unintended consequences of automated UI tests

Android, Automation, Checks Vs Testing, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Whenever I see people talking about automated testing I always wonder what type of testing they actually mean? Eventually someone will mention the framework they are using and all too often it's a UI based automation tool that allows tests…

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UI Automation, what is it good for?

Automation, BDD, Checks, Checks Vs Testing, Mobile, Test automation, Testing

TL;DR: What automation at the UI level does and doesn't give you. UPDATE: I originally wrote this back in March 2015, lost it in my drafts and found it again recently so thought I get it out there. Don’t agree then let me know in the comments. Automation…

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Mobile UI Automation

Android, Automation, Mobile, Test automation, Testing, Tips

(...from my experience) Original posted on Medium My name is Jitesh 'Jit' Gosai and I’m a Senior Developer in Test (DiT) at the BBC working in Mobile Platforms, Digital. I originally wrote this post well over a year ago (2014!) and recently…