JitGo, Jitesh Gosai: Tester, Speaker, Presenter

What are automated tests for?

Each automated test should be some isolated aspect of the behaviour of the system. Collectively these tests tell you that when you make a change to the system it still behaves as you want it to. What automated tests do is reduce your uncertainty that the system still behaves as you expect it to.

How to frame test automation as reducing uncertainty?

Well a good place to start is to help people understand what behaviour is covered by the tests. For instance, you could categorise the behaviour of your system into 3 buckets such as primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary could be things that are core to your product’s existence.

Speed Vs Quality: Can you have both?

5 minutes reading time I was recently part of a panel discussion around the topic “What is quality?” and an interesting question came up.

What do we do?

Trying to solving any of these issues is going to be a difficult thing to do and likely to lead to lots of false starts, dead ends and failures too. For most teams and organisations these issues are just too complex and are likely to be ignored all together or left for someone else which typically means no one.