06: Joe Colantonio : The Top 6 Automation Best Practices

Best Practices for Test Automation

Want to know what the top six automation best practices are? Joe shares with you his top killers of automation performance and reliability.

Quotes & Insights from this Test Talk

The Top 6 Automation Best Practices:

1. Synchronization
2. Not everything should be a UI test
3. Don’t treat your test scripts as code
4. Test Errors vs Failures
5. Don’t run against all browsers and OS versions
6. Start with the easy things first

Resources

• Creating an automation testing framework with Selenium – John Sonmez
• Do you REALLY need to run your WebDriver tests in IE? – Alister Scott
• Test Pyramid (developed by Mike Cohn) – Martin Fowler

Books

• Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum – Mike Cohn

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