How Sedin Technologies Automates

Talk Description

At Sedin Technologies 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 2022, we faced numerous challenges benefiting from automation. We understood that present test management tools are built on the Arrange-Act-Assert premise which is not how typically End-to-end or UI-driven testing is done in actual, hence writing Automated tests was not analogous to doing actual testing when human does it. We've overcome them now and are achieving great results from our automation by ditching the primary premise of testing based on Arrange-Act-Assert and resorting to State-based automation. 

We wrote an open-source Test Engine for doing so which figures out Test steps on its own based on State Dependency Graph (we needed to write an algorithm for this). We're benefitting from this way of writing tests as it shifts the focus of testing from procedures to desired outcomes irrespective of how preconditions are achieved.

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.

What you’ll learn

By the end of this talk, you'll be able to: