How Guild Education Automates

At Guild Education, we support our testing efforts with automation and are always seeking more ways to make our testing more efficient and effective. We've succeeded in many ways already and are hoping to continue that journey.

When I joined the company in 2021, we faced numerous challenges benefiting from automation. We had some siloed test automation solutions being done on each team but no guidelines on a more enterprise-wide strategy that focused on optimized and efficient solutions. We discovered that not only were we repeating tests, but that those results were not shared across multiple teams or reviewed by other quality engineers.

We've overcome them now and are achieving great results from our automation. We're benefitting from a centralized repository, but also created what we call "prime time" guidelines that both align with our software engineer counterparts and that scale. Some of those results will include deeper discussion on our bespoke "Tests as a Service" approach, meaningful metrics, and the "Leave no Trace" method.

In this talk, I'm going to share more details on those challenges and the approaches and tools we use to overcome them. I'll also share the current challenges we're facing and our future plans to solve them.