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Coordinating your automated and manual test management

By on June 6, 2011 in Automation, Communication, Management

After getting good and important feedback on the post I did a couple of weeks ago around Manual & Automatic Testing I decided to write a summary with the additional inputs and challenges I got from the field.
I also added some of the ides and points to be taken into account in order to successfully coordinate your manual and automated testing efforts.

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Manual and automated tests together are challenging

By on May 16, 2011 in Automation, Best Practices, Test Process

Many times we see testing teams that have automatic testing but still run part of their automation suites manually. I went out to ask for the reason for this in order to learn more about the challenges in running Manual and Automatic Testing efforts together.

Here we have the top answers, but I am also looking for more reasons in case you have something you want to share…

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Test Size Matters: THINK BIG, test small!

By on September 7, 2010 in Automation, Best Practices, On-Going Improvement

- Is the size of a test important?
- How big and comprehensive should a test case be?
- Should tests be always small, or should you write comprehensive tests that cover end-to-end and complex scenarios in “one-go”?

All of these are important questions, and even if there is no text-book answer for them there are some guidelines you can consider when you are wondering about this subject.

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Agile Test Automation – Learning to fly by jumping and letting go (of my previous assumptions)

By on February 11, 2010 in Automation, Management, Test Process

I started working on an automation project in a company where they recently adopted a strong and healthy agile development approach.  One of the first things they did was to distribute the once-unified testing team and incorporate the testers as part of the organic development teams; up to now all good and fine. The VP [...]

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