TEST THE RISK!

Automation means repeating some steps to have some tasks done with test code. However when it comes to test automation fulfilling this meaning is not that easy because of unpredictable reasons. You may face that a case has run successfully for a period of time but it fails for without an unknown reason. Actually there is always reasons which can make test failure but it may not be possible to handle it when writing the test. This kind of test cases are called as  flaky   test cases by Google . Flaky tests are the last thing you may want in CI environment because test are writing for fast feedback not for checking accidentally failed test cases. In this post I want to explain what I have done to overcome, actually minimise the effect of flakiness. Nature Of Flakiness Most of the time flakiness cause by our own mistakes. This could be not understanding the automation frameworks deeply or could be the result of non-adequate analysing the case. The other reasons like third party t

Test automation scripts should be simple. This doesn't mean that software product code should be complex. Actually,when everything is simple then the life will be simpler. However sometimes we need to explain something in a complex way. Most of the time, simple is difficult. There may be different reasons behind the complexity but it is clear that if we knew it clearly, we would explain it simply. Let's look at what Albert Einstein says:  "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." As the subject is how simplicity can be applied to test automation, I will focus on simple but efficient test scripts. To enable to write simple test scripts, we must clarify undefined, non-clear, dependent factors on every case/stories. This kind of approach is called as determinism in philosophy. According to the Princeton University dictionary, determinism means as:  " determinism ((philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that al