My thoughts presented in vodQA at ThoughtWorks Bangalore on 21st June 2014 on what is the "Future of Testing, Test Automation and the Quality Analyst" See my blog for more details: http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.in/2014/06/future-of-testing-test-automation-and.html

1. Future
of
Tes+ng,
Test
Automa+on
&
The
Quality
Analyst
Anand
Bagmar
So#ware
Quality
Evangelist
Principal
Consultant,

2.
@BagmarAnand
about.me/anand.bagmar
About
me

3. What
do
you
expect
from
this
session?

4. Evolu+on

5. One
thing
that
is
THE
SAME

6. OrganizaCon
ObjecCve
Time
Quality
Money
/
Value

7. Media

8. Past

9. Present

10. Future?

11. User
Interface

12. Past

13. Present

14. Present

15. Future?

16. Future?

17. Future?

18. Future?

19. Graphics

20. Past

21. Present

22. Present

23. Future?

24. Games

25. Past

26. Present

27. Present

28. Portable
Devices

29. Past

30. Past

31. Past

32. Present

33. Present

34. Present

35. Present

36. Future?

37. Content

38. Past

39. Past

40. Present

41. Future?

42. SpaCal
operaCng
environment
SpaCal
OperaCng
Environment
Professor
John
Underkoffler
-­‐
MIT

43. Pranav
Mistry
Sixth
Sense
Technology
hEp://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

46. Seamless
IntegraCon

48. Which
life
are
we
living?

49. What
does
this
mean
from
a
Tes+ng
Perspec+ve?

50. What
do
we
need
to
do
next?

51. Think
big!!

52. Test
AutomaCon
A
Safety
Net

53. Con+nuous
Integra+on
(CI)
and
Con+nuous
Design
and
Delivery
is
NOT
Op+onal

54. Test
Frameworks

55. What
is
next?
Behavior
Driven
Development
(BDD)
Custom
Frameworks
Record
&
Playback
Core
Framework

56. FuncConal
Tests
(GUI)
Web
Service
Tests
View
Tests
JavaScript
Tests
IntegraCon
tests
Unit
Tests
Test
AutomaTon
Pyramid
Manual
/
Exploratory
TesTng
Impact
on
Product
under
test
Ideal
Test
Pyramid
Business-­‐
facing
Tests
Technology-­‐
facing
Tests
• Cost
• Effort
• Time

57. 1st
candidate
• Automate!
• High
Value,
Low
Cost
2nd
candidate
• Automate!
• High
Value,
High
Cost
Can
Automate?
• Manual
Regression?
• Low
Value,
Low
Cost
Do
Not
Automate
• Manual
Regression!
• Low
Value,
High
Cost
High
Value
High
Cost
Low
Value
Low
Cost

58. Principles
of
Test
AutomaCon
Framework

59. Test
Automa+on
Code
should
be
treated
with
same
‘respect’
as
Product
Code

60. Principles
for
building
an
Automa+on
Framework
Code
Quality
Design
PaUerns
Abstrac+on
Layers
Refactor
Pairing
Evolve
Extend

61. Guidelines
for
building
an
Automa+on
Framework
Easy
to
Use
&
Reuse
Maintainable
Scalable
Browser
/
DB
/
OS
/
??
support
Known
Restric+ons
/
Constraints
Local
Vs
Remote
Parallel
Execu+on

62. Prac+ces
for
building
an
Automa+on
Framework
Configurable
Con+nuous
Integra+on
(CI)
Screenshots,
Video
Recording
Logging
Tools
&
U+li+es
Test
Data
No
Copy-­‐Paste

63. Context
is
KING!
Domain
Product-­‐
under-­‐test
Tech
Stack
Team
DistribuCon
Skills
Capability
Process
Test
Tech
Stack
Tools

64. Automate
tests
that
are
valuable,
not
because
you
can
or
like
to
automate!

65. Different
Roles
&
AcCviCes
of
a
Quality
Analyst

67. QA
Role
Product
Services

68. QA
Role
in
Product
OrganizaCons
Co-­‐located
Distributed

69. QA
Role
in
Services
OrganizaCons
Coaching
Off-­‐Shore
Delivery
ConsulCng
DevOps
On-­‐Site
Delivery

70. What
is
the
Future
of
a
Quality
Analyst?

75. Be
Crea+ve

78. Making
an
Idea
a
Reality
Innovators
Early
Adopters
Early
Majority
Late
Majority
Laggards

79. Who
are
you?
Where
do
you
want
to
be?

80. abagmar@gmail.com
Anand.Bagmar@thoughtworks.com
@BagmarAnand
about.me/anand.bagmar
Thank
you