Automation in Testing - Edinburgh

Automation is everywhere, its popularity and uptake have rocketed in recent years and it’s showing little sign of slowing down. So in order to be successful with automation, all you need to know is how to code, right? No. While knowing how to code is a great tool in your toolbelt, there is far more to automation than writing code. Beyond learning to code you need to be able to determine:

• What tests you should create

• What data your tests require

• What layer in your application you should write them at

• What language or framework to use

• If your testability is good enough

• If it’s helping you solve your testing problems

• What value you are getting from automation

Answering those questions is significantly harder than writing the code. Yet our industry is pushing people straight into code and bypassing the theory. Automation in Testing aims to help you answer those questions by focusing on not just creating automation, but working out opportunities to use automation as well as advocating for good practices and uses of automation in your team. This is achieved through three days of training that combines blended learning techniques to help you get the most out of our training. Throughout the course you’ll take part in:

• Engaging classroom activities that have you roleplaying as specialists in automation, tasked with automating a modern web application

• Self-guided activities that will have you exploring a wide range of automation techniques, with support from your instructors

Throughout the course, Richard and Mark offer their expert knowledge and share techniques and theories they use to succeed with automation whilst offering you the opportunity to explore the tools and ideas you want to learn.