automation: May 2008 Archives

I finally got permission (kind of) to post my slides and recording from my presentation at the QSE Conference a few weeks ago.  This was an internal IBM conference about test automation, continuous integration, agile methodologies, etc...  My talk was about test automation in general and what me and my team is doing around it.  So if you are interested, or are having trouble sleeping, feel free to download the slides and recording.  I can't post any of the source code or videos of the test automation running for lots of intellectual property reasons.  But if you have questions about anything feel free to email me at tom.carroll[at]gmail.com .

I found this video about a week ago but I finally got a chance to watch it while some of my test automation stuff was running (healthier than eating a donut). If you are interested in Automator for Mac OS X feel free to watch the video and check out more information here. If not, well, you've probably stopped reading this posting by now. :-)

Thanks to Matt for sending me a link to this blog posting about Agile friendly Test Automation Tools and Frameworks. Overall I can totally relate to the pain associated with trying to do automation with tools that are not suited for the project. And if you are going to do real automation testing for an agile project it makes a huge difference if you can write the test code in a real programming language instead of some weird, proprietary, scripting language.