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Sharpen the Axe! An Adventure Game about Test Automation

Anne Kramer

13:30-17:00 CEST Tuesday 13th June

You wake up in a meeting. Someone has just said that your regression testing is bad. (In fact, he said something very unpleasant that we won’t repeat here.) You know perfectly well that test automation would help you with this problem. Once again, you make a good resolution to increase the number of automated tests. This is how the adventure begins. Together with your team, you will discover the product backlog, specify tests, move forward in the story, encounter expected and unexpected difficulties, and hopefully, in the end, achieve good test coverage through automated test scripts.

In this tutorial, participants will experience in a playful way how to deal with typical challenges in test automation as, for example, chaotic product backlogs, legacy test scripts, deteriorating coverage and lack of time. The audience will form groups of 4 persons and practice together well-established test design methods such as decision table testing, model-based testing, BDD and keyword-driven testing. From time to time, unexpected events will occur. To the end, the groups will discuss the different approaches they saw during the game and share their experiences with the entire audience.

What you will learn

  1. Success and failure strongly depend on the way a team works together.
  2. Successful test automation starts with well-structured test cases.
  3. Everybody in the team can (and should) participate in the test automation process.

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 3.5 Hours
  •  Interactive Tutorial
  • Methods of Collaboration
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What Attendees Say

“Very well presented and informative.”

“Great presentation and insights.”

“Learned a lot from the session I can use back in the workplace.”

Session Speaker

Anne Kramer, EuroSTAR 2023 speaker. Join her talk, 'Sharpen the Axe! An Adventure Game about Test Automation'

Anne Kramer

Global CSM – Smartesting Solutions & Services, Germany

During her career in highly regulated and therefore demanding industries (e-payment, life sciences, automotive), Anne has gained an exceptional wealth of experience in IT projects – especially in QA and testing. As an expert in test design approaches based on visual representations, Anne, who holds a PhD in physics, contributed to the ISTQB curriculum on Model-Based Tester and is co-author of the related textbook (Model-Based Testing Essentials – Wiley – 2016).

Anne is passionate about sharing her knowledge and expertise. So it is fitting that after more than 20 years as a project manager, process consultant and trainer, she decided at the end of 2021 to go in a completely new direction once again. Since April 2022, Anne has been Global Customer Success Manager at Smartesting, a French manufacturer of SW testing tools.

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