Agile Automation Strategy

Hi Gabe :slight_smile:

I’d love one for both UI and non-UI automation. This is an existing product within the company but not available to customers yet.

We have unit tests in place but no API layer tests at the moment. Our API is basically getting ripped up and starting from scratch so automating there makes no sense at the moment (I think). It’s something I know we need to do in the very near future though.

I have some UI automation in place, it was basically to get me practising and it isn’t part of our deployment (I manually run it). I’ve retired the suite for the time being because there are pretty major performance issues with the product. Some pages take up to 60 seconds to load, the minimum page load we have at the moment is 10 seconds. I think automating at this stage is unwise but I’d like to start planning for when we address these problems.

At the moment we have a lot of manual effort, I’ve only recently gotten another person to help with testing so there is a lot slipping through the cracks. I know this and want to fix it if I can.

We release internally every two weeks. When we have customers using the system externally we’ll be about the same or once per month I think.