How to Tackle Automation without an

Expert?
You could become one
What if there is no Automation expert?
Someone in the team could become one

Books, blog posts, conferences, meetups, etc.

Test Automation University curated courses

Learning Automation - Where to start? Programming

What to learn first? Honing skills

How to build an Automation framework?

The Solo way

Attend a Course
How to Learn?
Going on a tour Visiting other teams and companies to learn about their approaches

Personal Learning Network

Familiar

Easy to learn
Which Automation framework to use?
Support devices that are deemed most risky

Should support creating a custom DSL

Separate Repository

Maintaining Repository
Shared ownership
Shared Repository
Easily accessible without impediments

Code Review Test your automation

Automation Setup Considerations

Tests should run independently

Test Data setup
Include test data in test scenario set up

Where will the test run?

Test Environment and Infrastructure
Against which product version?

fast tests figure automatically to get faster feedback

Build pipeline
Longer tests trigger manually

special product backlog items for initial setup

Automation in everyday's work
whole team should consider each and every story

build legacy initially

try things
later revise automation incrementally
When starting out
get your team on-board

Collaborate on automation