Ananthapadmanabhan R Organization: ThoughtWorks Studios Topic: Holistic test suite development and Twist Presented in vodQA - THE TESTING SPIRIT! on Oct 7, 2010 in ThoughtWorks, Pune

1. Thursday, October 7, 2010
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2. Holistic test suite
development
• Ananthapadmanabhan R
• Quality Analyst
• Thoughtworks Studios
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3. Agenda
• Tests vs suites
• What we want in a good suite...
• ...and how we've tried our hand at it
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4. Tests vs Suites
• Test scenario: Covering a certain functionality or
user flow, or a “test case”
• Test suite or project : A set of test scenarios
covering overall functionality of product, or on a
major aspect of the product.
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5. What we want in a good test suite...
ho·lism
/ˈhoʊlɪzəm/ Spelled[hoh-liz-uhm]
–noun
• the theory that whole entities, as
fundamental components of
reality, have an existence other
than as the mere sum of their
parts
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6. Test SW maintenance is a
costly affair...
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7. Tests as assets
• Reducing test brittleness is
critical
o Separating Intent from
Implementation
o Reuse, refactor
• Reducing
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8. Collaboration
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9. Also required...
• Abstraction
• Organisation
• Maintainability
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10. ...and how we've tried our hand
at it
A Testing IDE
• Enhanced Team Productivity
o Collaborate
o Keep pace
• Efficiently manage test suites
o Organize
o Refactor
o Auto Complete
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11. A scenario editor – Express Intents
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12. Link to underlying implementation
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13. Reuse
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14. Organise
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15. Handle change
Twist feature changed name from “Extract concept” to
“Push to implementation”
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16. Handle change
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17. Abstraction - Intent
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18. Abstraction - Implementation
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19. Propagation
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20. Data driven testing
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21. Tying it all back together...
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22. Q&A
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