Clint Sprauve did a pretty slick talk at Star West of the format ‘do these things and you will fail’ style that is popular these days. You know you are attending a talk in the US when it starts with a football metaphor; kinda worked, but likely could have gone better with a different audience. Ah well.

  • Unit tests is like only spellchecking for a novel — spell correct but is want to read it?
  • The techniques…
    • Record and Playback only
    • Dependencies between Tests
    • Elaborate Test Frameworks
    • Substantial Duplication of Tests
    • Happy Path only
    • No (or not enough) Unit Tests
    • No (or not enough) GUI Tests
    • Poor readability of test cases
    • Go Agile and force BAs and SMEs into automation
    • Keyword Driven Testing
  • Manual testing didn’t die because we created automated testing
  • A Pragmatic Approach
    • Don’t let tools’ drive your quality efforts
    • Use DSLs (either Cucumber-ish or Keyword)
    • and a couple other things I didn’t catch