Having followed best practices from previous Selenium Conference talks, the Zoll Lifevest team was able to shift from flaky tests to stable and reliable automated tests. During that time, Sneha Viswalingam learned the importance of building trust in the test suite to unite the team as a whole. Once trust is established in the automated tests, it became crucial to the overall software development lifecycle. In this talk, Sneha covers the following topics: - Strategies that she used to make the tests reliable - Trainings for the manual testers to contribute to the automation efforts - Importance of having an Automation Test Reporting Dashboard - Presenting the project status and test reports on a wallboard to reinforce trust By implementing these steps in her organization, Sneha has built trust not only within the test suite but into the team as a whole.

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Sneha
Viswalingam
Test Automation Engineer
Zoll Lifevest

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Anatomy of a Test
Credits to @rantene

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Identify
● Look for a pattern
● Spot the flaky test
● Note them down

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Isolate
● Tag the flaky tests
● Run main test suite and
flaky test suite
separately

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Investigate
● Post mortem analysis
● Look for the root cause

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23. ● Observe the tests
for many runs
● If they pass
continuously,then
add them back to the
main suite
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Code
committed to
Repository
Pull request
created for
commit
Pull Request
URL
documented
in JIRA ticket
Push
changes to
master
branch
Automation
Engineer
makes
required
changes
All
Automation
Team
members
review
One
Automation
team member
reviews
Approved
Framework
Updates?
NO YES
NO YES
Code
Review
Process

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Quality Assurance Leaders
- Advocates for Success

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Software Developers
- Design for Testability
- Knowledge Sharing

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Test Engineers
- Subject Matter Experts

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High Level Architecture
Feature File Page Objects File
Step definition
File
Test Scripts Automation Core
Specflow Selenium C#

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Writing Feature Files
● Behavior Driven
● Phrasing Steps
● Title
● Style

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Tidy Gherkin
● Chrome App, easy to install
● No need to install an IDE
● Ease of use
● Free and Lightweight

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Knowledge Sharing
● Workflow of Automation CI
● Hands-on Test Execution
● Introduction to BDD
● Troubleshooting and Evaluating
Automation Bugs

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Build your own Dashboard

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