Hi all,
We’re continuing our work to create a curriculum focused on automation that is created with feedback from the testing community. We’ve already run a series of activities that have helped us identify a list of key tasks that helped us create this Job Profile 2.
We’re now in the process of going through each task and analysing them to identify the core steps we take to achieve them. For this post we’re considering the task:
We’ve run a series of community activities including social questions and our curriculum review sessions to identify the steps we need to take to successfully achieve this task and have listed them below:
Identify framework requirements
Reporting requirements
Standalone / embedded?
Execution requirements (parallel runs, multiple browsers etc.)
Test data management?
Create an architecture diagram of the type of solution we want
Run an proof of concept spike
Technical analysis on which tools can and cannot be used
Develop a basic framework
Test out off the shelf tooling
Create a space to version control the framework in
Setup framework with required libraries and configurations
Create an initial check to demonstrate necessary abstractions
Sharing knowledge of framework with others
Create documentation detailing how to use the framework
Upload framework within version control
Integrate framework in CI/CD
What we would like to know is what do you think of these steps? Have we missed anything? Is there anything in this list that doesn’t make sense?
What are your thoughts on these steps? How do you go about building a framework?