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Automated functional testing has both: - lots of charm especially for business stakeholders - many many problems in doing it right
Some of the common problems: - Providing a realistic test environment for todays complex system is non-trivial and beyond what most testers can do. There needs to be massive involvement from software development and deployment experts. - The idea to have the business people be responsible for the test examples is intriguing but the complex workflow required for collecting, organising, automating and version-controlling large sets of tests coming from many sources is not well understood. - Functional tests should formulate some kind of contract between business and development. Bridging the language gap between the two sides requires people being at home in both fields. Those people are rare and usually not very fascinated by testing; how can we intrigue them to participate?
The workshop will provide me with an opportunity to collect new ideas from the field, especially in the workflow and laguage gap side of the problem. I’m looking forward to share my experiences and experiments with all the other participants.