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A Software Architect Attempted to Undermine Continuous Testing — Later Eagerly Sought My Mentoring on BuildWise Before My Departure. Part A: The Story
When you understand the human factors after witnessing real E2E Test Automation, the two contrasting behaviours actually make perfect sense.
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Today, I’m sharing an intriguing and true story.
Many years ago, I joined a financial company as a contractor test automation engineer. Within just a week, I developed an innovative automated testing solution (with a dozen real business scenarios automated, this app is more tricky than standard web app automation) — something that an ‘agile transformation team’ had been researching for nine months with nothing to show for it.
After a manual tester in our team demonstrated how quickly she learned (with joy), the rest of the team began to embrace test automation. Each day, alongside my own testing tasks, I’d regularly get up to help other testers (on request) resolve their issues, typically in under a minute. By the way, this is how a real test automation coach works daily.
