Chad Kennedy and Lindsey Rominsky from Lockheed Martin discuss automation at Eggplanet.

1. Automation as an Ally
October 10, 2019
Chad Kennedy
Lindsey Rominsky

2. eggplanet 2019
Overview
• Leading the Effort – The Cultural Shift (Individual)
• Leading the Effort – The Cultural Shift (Team)
• Our Approach on What to Automate
• Our Approach on How to Automate
• Eggplant AI
• Automate Anything
• Automate Anything (Particular Time Savers)
• Summary

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Leading the Effort – The Cultural Shift (Individual)
• Cost benefit/ROI
• Create Videos and Screenshots for demos to management, customers, training and Quality Assurance
• Paradigm Shift to all
• Utility is simplistic
• Creativity encouraged
• Why do we need to automate
• Repeatability
• Reliability
• Speed
• Record-Keeping
Reliability
Repeatabili
ty
Speed
Record-
Keeping

4. Leading the Effort
• Management/Leadership too critical
• Making the effort the same
• What’s wrong with our methods
• ‘Party pooper’ mentality
• Micro-management
The Cultural
Shift (TEAM)

5. eggplanet 2019
Our Approach on What to Automate
• Automate anything mundane/tedious tasks that are done repeatedly
• Automate uninstall and install
• Automate setup/configurations/check versions
• Automate tests to run in different configurations
• On different hardware
• On different operating systems
• Using different data inputs
• Automate tests to run for a certain period of time (x hours or x tasks)
• Automate running multiple tests for load bearing performance numbers
• If it is on the screen, automate it

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Our Approach on How To Automate
• Make automation easy and simple to maintain
• Use global variables and/or database to
control variables
• Use Helper Suites to easily re-use code
• Automate test procedures
• Start with simple, mundane tests that are run more often (smoke test)
• Build up functions for re-use
• Add in complexity as you go
• Test Report
• Simple view of results for Management and Customer

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Eggplant AI
• Completely different approach that melds the entire product’s lifecycle
• Mirrored prototype
• Matured model as code matured
• Provides pretty pictures (models) to represent the system to both
technical and non-technical people
• Visual Maintenance of the system
• Visually show the system and its interactions
• Visually show test coverage

8. Automate Anything
• Demos
• Installs/Uninstalls/Verify versions
• Win7 vs Win10, Windows vs Linux, RDP vs VNC, old machines vs
new
• Timing Tests: Loop for 10 hours or loop for 1000 tasks
• Use excel files to manage/update labs
• Orchestrate other scripts and tools for a comprehensive system
checkout

9. Automate Anything (Particular Time Savers)
• Automate Automation
• Document inspections

10. eggplanet 2019
Summary
• Test automation is a powerful process that can be tailored to the application and
required outcome
• Automation has the potential to be better, faster, and cheaper than its manual
counterpart when properly planned and executed
• Create videos, screenshots and reports for other purposes
Chad.Kennedy@LMCO.com
Lindsey.Rominsky@LMCO.com
© 2019 Lockheed Martin Corporation