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Journey towards Automation: Pitfalls and Possibilities

Sune Engsig

14:15-14:45 CEST Wednesday 29th September

The journey towards automation: Pitfalls and possibilities for teams and testers. We talk to them every day: Organisations and businesses on the verge of committing to automation. Behind them are countless hours, considerations, and discussions leading up to the decision to automate. Coincidentally, it’s not just one single decision – but several. The problem is, most decision-makers aren’t aware of this. Very often, the focus is on the tool rather than the method. As a consequence, automation gets off to a rough start.

In my role as Chief Evangelist, I have seen many of these situations, talking to leading IT organisations all over the world. I want to share our lessons learned from these experiences with our target users – the skilled, functional testers. As I see it, automation has to be based on an understanding of the business processes; an insight deeply founded in any experienced tester.

In this presentation, I will touch on some of the missed, but critical, considerations when embarking upon automation. Some are relevant for the test managers – some for the testers. All of them are crucial for a successful automation journey. And I promise: Not one single word about any automation tool.

The most important topics are:

-          The value and contribution of a tester: Beyond executing the test script.
-          What are the key enablers for long-term sustainable automation? (Hint: It’s not the tool)
-          Automation: NOT business as usual (Hint: Not because of the tool)
-          Where does the automation effort begin (Hint: Not with the tool)

The purpose of this presentation is to empower, engage and educate the functional tester towards the automation journey. Because automation is mistakenly perceived as an agenda specifically for the engineers. Hint: It is not.

What you will learn

  1. That automation depends on business understanding and insight.
  2. That the experience and practical knowledge of the applications in play is critical - not how to code.
  3. That after a temporary technical period - automation will become standard and user friendly.

Track Talk

  • Introductory
  • 30 Minutes
  • Live Q&A
  • New Technologies and Challenges
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Check out this video from Sune Engsig to hear more about his talk on the Journey towards Automation: Pitfalls and Possibilities.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2022.

Session Speaker

Sune Engsig EuroSTAR speaker

Sune Engsig

Chief Evangelist – Leapwork A/S, Denmark

For more than 20 years I have been passionate about bringing business, people and technology closer together. Overall the story has been business process development and optimisation. Within this, it has been a story of facilitating business processes and rulesets that would let themselves translate into IT – and further into usable and understandable solutions for users, internal as well as external.

After having built *a lot* of business systems over the years, the next logical step was to make users lives even easier – by eliminating quality issues and bad code through automated test. But – firmly in the hands of the business savvy functional tester – after all; it is more important to know what to automate to obtain the best quality; rather than how.

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