Designing Comprehensive Automated Software Testing Strategies

Course Overview

Availability targets for automated software testing are commercial commitments, whatever the engineering team calls them. Most outages involving this strand of technology and systems delivery are triggered by a change somebody considered routine. Applied research in technology and systems delivery consistently shows that early structure around this part of technology and systems delivery reduces downstream rework. The programme converts automated software testing from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Participants gain a realistic view of what the wider technology and systems delivery agenda costs and what it returns. What blocks progress on the technology and systems delivery discipline is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about automated software testing in their own setting. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on this part of technology and systems delivery are used deliberately. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for this aspect of technology and systems delivery survives a hostile question.