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Tutorial F

From Business Workflows to Automated Tests

Anne Kramer

09:00-12:30 CEST Tuesday 7th June

With the deployment of agile development practices, QA & Testing teams are challenged by the acceleration of production releases and the imperative of test automation. These challenges make test relevance and the alignment of these tests with business needs even more crucial. After all, what would be the economic justification of investing in automation and maintenance of tests that do not properly reflect the business needs?

While agility favours continuous collaboration on a largely verbal basis, how can we ensure that the business message is conveyed without distortion to the automated tests? What artifacts capable of transcending differences in profiles (business, developers, testers, POs, managers) should be used to support agile team collaboration given that the Gherkin language is not well accepted by many and is also ill-suited to the expression of longer, more complex tests at the top of the test pyramid?

This tutorial allows participants to practice a visual TDD approach (Acceptance Test Driven Development). In this approach, the test requirements are expressed in graphical workflows.

This graphical representation is not exclusive and can coexist with textual User Stories and acceptance criteria. Nevertheless, its visual nature makes it quickly understandable by all the project stakeholders, whatever their profile and technical background. Another advantage lies in the contextualization of the US: the business challenge, the “big picture” is always kept in mind.

The participants of the tutorial will build such a test workflow for a simple functional scope proposed as a practical exercise.

  • From their test workflows, they will manipulate a tool (YEST) that assists QA teams in test design
  • They will implement the designed tests in a textual form for manual execution and publish these manual tests in a test management tool (Xray forJira).
  • They will define the regression tests to be automated and implement the selected tests in the form of pre-defined keyword sequences. * They will produce and use data tables to assign data variables to the automated tests.
  • They will publish the automated scripts in the RobotFramework and will be able to launch the test execution.
  • Finally, they will see how the execution results are reported in Xray and how a visual pre-analysis of these results is proposed directly on their graphical application workflow in Jira.

What you will learn

  1. The participants of the tutorial will discover a visual ATDD approach that is very well adapted to the functional testing of large enterprise information systems.
  2. They learn how to express business needs and test requirements in the form of graphical workflows and appreciate the collaborative contribution of this visual representation.
  3. They discover and implement an integrated tool chain from the expression of the business needs to the automated tests. They also discover and practice the collaboration between manual testers and test automation engineers.

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 3.5 hrs
  • Interactive Tutorial
  • Agile / DevOps
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Session Speaker

EuroSTAR 2022 speaker Anne Kramer.

Anne Kramer

Global CSM / Testing Expert – Smartesting, France

Anne Kramer, PhD, started her career at Schlumberger Systems in Paris. In 2001 she joined Sepp.Med GmbH, a German IT Service Provider specialized in quality assurance, where she spent more than 20 years as Project Manager, Senior Consultant and trainer. In parallel, Anne, tri-lingual German, English and French, shared her expertise in testing methodologies in various forums. She also contributed to the development of the ISTQB Model-Based Tester syllabus and wrote (in collaboration with Pr Bruno Legeard) a guide book for testers wishing to prepare the ISTQB Model-Based Tester certification exam. Passionate with advanced test design techniques, Anne has recently joined Smartesting as Global Customer Success Manager to help the company to spread it technological innovations on the international testing market.

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