I Feel The Need, The Need For Speed!

Enabling Your Team Testing Efforts To Focus On Automation

Testing was the bottlneck We needed an accelerant

Mission

Change the mindset of our entire team to utilize automated testing as the primary method of testing

Manual Testers (influence the team)

Strength: They know the product really well Weakness: Moving between projects weakens your skillset

Argument: Automation makes your skillset more transferrable

Other Leaders

Change the mindset: Get them excited, eliminate excuses

Build a flight simulator

• Course outline - sets expectations
• Learning Objective - articulate the knowledge/skill you want the student to acquire
  • What rubric will I be tested against?
• Physical Organization
  • remove people from their “normal” space
  • Everyone used remote tools if someone was remote
• Capstone project
  • Real test scenarios for a team
  • Time bound
  • “Final exam” for the course
    • Certified vs Trained
    • Certified was ready, trained had follow-up items

Entire team

• Win hearts and minds
• Defend the standard
  • Stopped hiring people who didn’t have the skills (automated testing)
  • Started converting interns instead
• Team events
  • Testathon - Team tries to create unit tests
    • Maybe not great tests, but the mindset of unit testing started spreading
• Promotions
  • Prove that you’re sharing your knowledge
• Contribution to Test Automation
  • 33% QA, 33% Dev, 20% BA, 13% architect