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Quick presentation on SQA Days Automation can simplify your life - they say… but, in many cases the assimilation of your automation systems is not as simple as you expected them to be. A correct automation project would be one that is easily embraced by the person intended to use it, providing him more and more value. This will allow you to continue and offer additional automation features that will provide additional value. By failing to do so, you deny yourself the option to move on to the next challenge, as you need to operate your systems as well as writing them. In order to proceed to your next automation challenge you need your users to be able to use the systems you have created for them; Unfortunately, this is not always the case…. In many cases we as automation engineers are missing on some very important steps on the way to a correct assimilation of the automation tools into the development process. In this session will try and review part of what we consider to be “down to earth” and important building stones on the way to the creation of a productive automation process; Understanding your users, their needs, selecting the right tool for the mission, and providing good comprehensive automation solution on time.
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Your automation is only as
good as the person using it
Max Kolotilkin
Automation Engineer @ Wix
About Wix
Wix in Numbers
• 40,000,000 Users
– Adding over 1,000,000 new users each month
• 3 Data centers + 2 clouds (Google AE, Amazon)
– Around 300 servers
• Static storage is over 200TB of data
– Adding over 1TB of files every day
• Over 450 people work at Wix
– ~150 people in the R&D
• 400 deployments a month
– Continuous delivery
The Automation Way
Automation is a major player in continuous
delivery processes
It is a huge discipline with an unlimited
amount of possible approaches
Helps not only QA, but other company’s
divisions as well
The Automation Way
A lot of the automation projects are not being used
as commonly as expected
Necessity
Stability
Writing\running times
Maintenance etc.’
It all comes down to usability of your
automation project
The Automation Way
How can we make sure that users
are really gaining from your
automation project ?
The Automation Way
a) User Oriented Implementation
b) Ease of use
c) Keeping your automation alive
User Oriented Implementation Ease of useKeeping your automation
alive
User oriented implementation
What are your goals?
a) In most cases you can find a lot of value
automating a process
b) What are your trying to achieve ?
The Human factor
a) Understand their day to day work
b) Understand their needs
User Oriented Implementation Ease of useKeeping your automation
alive
User oriented implementation
Technology
Agile implementation
a) Don’t be afraid of changes
b) Provide “rapid value” to the users
c) Get feedback – make the user part of
the development process
d) Build your test project correctly
User Oriented Implementation Ease of useKeeping your automation
alive
Make your automation easy to use
Understandable automation
Accessibility
Basic common means of analysis
Automate the triggering process
User Oriented Implementation Ease of useKeeping your automation
alive
Keep your automation project alive
Keeps your tests valid
a) Maintenance
b) Availability
Support
Be there for your users, don’t leave them
hanging
User Oriented Implementation Ease of useKeeping your automation
alive
If you write it….
They will come !
