Matthew Heusser / Matt@xndev.com / xndev.blogspot.comThe Software Test&Performance Conference / San Mateo, CA Apr 16th, 2008

Evolution/RevolutionAnd Test Automation

Dialectic

(In-class exercise. I’ll meet you at the easel.)

How Science Advances- Aristotle’s Error

- Galileo

- Copernicus

-Neptunism

- Newton

- Francis Bacon

The testing pyramid

Test Automation - I

Test Automation - II

• Model Based Testing

Tomorrow’s Test Automation

• Test Classification as ‘tags’

• Other kinds of test automation– Little tool sets– Reproducing Defects– Documenting Defects– Creating “Test Case” Documentation– Taking notes for us

A different kind of tool set