Test Automation Disasters
Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin
Austin · July 27 - 29, 2018
About this Presentation
How much time have you spent automating tests, then discovered the tests were mostly useless, brittle, time-consuming, and hard to understand? How many times have you deleted everything, started over, and came with a substantially better strategy for next time?
In this session, we'll dig into one disaster story at a time, explore the nuts & bolts, then distill lessons learned and improvement ideas.
One of the best ways to evolve our brain's “Anti Pain” gut feel system is through sharing disaster experiences, reflecting on alternatives, and distilling patterns and lessons learned.
As a bonus, venting your frustrations is cathartic!
Developer Experience Researcher, University of Victoria
Arty Starr has been a software engineer for 20+ years and is a researcher and pioneer of new theories of the developer's cognitive experience that help us recognize how developers' experiences are changing with AI. Her theories of developer momentum and troubleshooting help us see software development through an ecological lens, recognizing it as a living activity in motion and the living capacities of care and cognition that support this motion. Her aim is to bring heart, human-centric values, and agency to the craft of software development so we can build toward the type of world we want to live in. With richer perception and by recognizing what matters, we can light a path to a future of thriving habitats where humans and AI can collaborate well and thrive together.
Arty is the author of Idea Flow, a speaker, thought leader, and artist who loves mixing ideas across disciplines into a fusion of creativity to help make the world a better place through her projects.