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Test Automation –10 (sometimes painful) Lessons learnedMichael Palotas & Dominik DaryQuality Engineering Team EuropeeBay InternationalApril 2012

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eBay Inc. Facts Founded in 1995 Based in San Jose, California 27770 Employees worldwide

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Platform Facts 104 million active buyers and sellers worldwide 68 Billion USD transaction volume 2011 2000 USD transaction volume every second

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Data Facts 9 petabytes of data In our Hadoop and Teradata clusters 2 billion page views each day 75 billion database calls each day

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Mobile Facts 70,000,000 times eBay Inc’s apps have been downloaded 5 billion USD transacted 2011 on mobile devices 1 million items are listed with using mobile apps every week

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Who we are Michael Palotas Head of Quality Engineering Europe E-mail: mpalotas@ebay.com Dominik Dary Staff Software Engineer in Test E-mail: ddary@ebay.com

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Lesson 1: Flip the testing triangle Manual Tests Manual Tests E2E Tests E2E Automation Tests Integration Tests Unit Tests Unit Tests Inspiration: http://patrickwilsonwelsh.com/?p=32

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Lesson 2: Everyone needs to know what isautomatedUse Test Aspects** Advantages• Test aspects briefly describe • Clear overview for all team “why” and “what” has to be members about test coverage tested, without describing • Simplicity helps you to do “how” quick reviews and• Enables for early testing walkthroughs with your product because tests can be written at owner the same time the user story is • Enables you to identify manual created and automated test duplicates• Test aspects are structurally • Traceability between test derived cases and specification **Swiss Testing Day Presentation 2010: “Mit Testaspekten früh, intelligent und redundanzfrei testen” Melanie Späth Image Source: http://www.masternewmedia.org/images/social_software_impact_individual_organizations.jpg

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Lesson 3: A Tool is not a Strategy A test tool/testing framework wont teach your testers how to test A clear testing process is mandatory for test automation Test Aspects and modeling of the Biz-Domain layer is the key success factor for your test strategy

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Lesson 4: Write the right tests Source: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/119/269335955_03a0ff4b67_o.jpg

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Lesson 4: Write the right tests Automate the business critical use cases of your customer Focus on end-to-end testing rather than UI component tests Design testability into your product

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Lesson 5: Instant Feedback is essential Development Test D T D T D T D T D T D T D T D T

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Lesson 6: Automation is software developmentSkillset & Knowledge Engineering practice• You need people with software • Task oriented development development skills and an helps you to get things done appetite for testing • Follow the basic rules like lean• Automation mindset is essential development principles• Good understanding of the • Design the test before coding it architecture of the application • Do code reviews under test is required • Your developers can give you very good feedback about your code quality

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Lesson 7: Maintainability is kingSource: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d3df553ef01348602ac19970c-pi

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Lesson 7: Maintainability is kingTechnical Debt Lean Test Automation• Activities that result in • Eliminate Waste Definition of Done technical debt include • Build Quality In Reviews • Postponing documentation and • Create Knowledge Document the essentials writing tests • Defer Commitment Don’t build a framework • attending to TODO • Deliver Fast comments and • tackling compiler and • Respect People Long Leash static code analysis • Optimize the Whole warnings• Knowledge that isnt shared around the organization• Code that is too confusing to be modified easily

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Lesson 8: Speak the same language as thedevelopers Use the same programming language as development Developers can write or maintain tests if needed Enables for a cross functional team where everyone can work on nearly every task

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Lesson 9: Invest into the test infrastructure Speed up and simplify the creation of test data Offer and use web services Web based test data creation tools can be used in test auto- mation and manual testing

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Lesson 10: Manual testing is still very important Automated tests only do what you have implemented: at the same speed, same order, with exactly the same mouse clicks Manual testing allows you to go off the beaten path Test automation in combination with exploratory testing combine the best of both worlds Quality = Manual + Automated Testing

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Conclusion of our ten lessons learned1. Flip the testing triangle 6. Automation is software2. A tool is not a strategy development itself3. Everyone knows 7. Maintainability is king what’s automated 8. Speak the same4. Write the right tests language as the5. Instant Feedback is developers essential 9. Invest into the test Infrastructure 10.Manual testing is still very important

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Thank You!Questions or Comments?