We have recently created an automated test suite to replace some of the manual tests that we used to run for regression. I'm finding the below more of an occurrence now!
After my last post, I had the question of what is a PBI... so I thought i'd write a short blog post about what they are and why they are used. A PBI is an acronym for Product Backlog Item. It is a description of a piece of work that your SCRUM team will develop and deliver. When you have a list of Product Backlog Items, you then refer to that collective list as a Product Backlog. The product backlog is often prioritised and yourteam will work through each PBI, and release on a regular schedule... I am however going deep into the world of Agile development, which isn't entirely what this post is about, so I will stop myself now. A Product Backlog Item is made up of the following: Title - This is often a one liner that gives the team an idea of what the PBI is about, although it can just be an ID for the item and the team work off of that. Description - Breaks down the PBI in a bit more detail, and can be written in any style, however I prefer it to be written as follow...
If you don't build your automation logs well - this will become:
ReplyDelete"I have to spend 3 days investigating a failed automated test, rather than spending a whole day running manual tests."
Drill-down logs infrastructure is highly required, yet, hardly any common tools for that.
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We've set up our automated tests to give us as much information as possible when they fail, a screenshot is captured and the assertions all have pretty descriptive error messages. When debugging we'll see the stack trace as much as possible, so it's not all doom and gloom.
DeleteAll too often however, tests don't have informative errors or it's difficult to find out why a test failed, then you'll get your 3 days investigating!!!
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