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Track Talk W15

Beyond Logs: Elevating Test Analysis with Data Visualization

Aleksi Simell

15:15-16:15 Wednesday 12th June

Test automation is a powerful tool to build on the experience gathered from in-person testing, but is there a way to leverage test automation beyond the simple pass and failure results. Is there a way to say, “what are we doing here?” Looking from a helicopter view, test automation tools provide output log files, which give a good overview of the latest run, but only for the latest run.

For short term analysis, that is sufficient, but you won’t know if passes, failures, execution times, etc. are consistent, unexpected, or following a certain trend. Therefore, data visualization is the key to unlock the potential of all the collected data and deep data analysis. They help your team react to issues faster, and in some cases, they even help you understand possible issues even before they become actual issues, enabling proactive actions.

This presentation will explore some real life examples from telecom and embedded systems industries, where data visualization helped organizations evaluate their systems from a different perspective, so they could identify and justify necessary actions to help them get back on track. The talk will expand the knowledge of available data, and give tips on how to harness that data to reveal your unknown issues, gain confidence in your systems, and improve your testing overall.

What you will learn

  1. Test automation offers much more data than just the test execution results
  2. Visualizations help discover hidden issues and predict upcoming ones, such as steady performance decrease or consistent test flakiness
  3. Visualizations help negate false positives, as well as false negatives

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • 1 Hour
  • Includes 20mins Discussion
  • Bug recognition, investigation & reporting
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Check out this video from Aleksi Simell to hear more about his talk, ‘Beyond Logs: Elevating Test Analysis with Data Visualization’.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2024.

Session Speaker

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Aleksi Simell

Senior DevOps Consultant – Eficode, Finland

Aleksi is a test automation oriented Senior DevOps consultant at Eficode. He started working with Robot Framework and test automation in 2015 ,and has since worked actively in different Robot Framework related projects. He has helped and coached multiple organizations to adopt better test automation and CI/CD practices, and is constantly looking for opportunities to improve test automation use cases. He is also the creator of the DuckOps comics, which teaches DevOps practices from a computerless perspective.

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