Jerry Yang, McAfee
Are you running out of time to test your products? Are you overloaded with too many work assignments? Are you repeatedly doing the same type of work day after day? Consider building your own robot squad to help reduce your workload. Harry Robinson, Microsoft Principle Software Design Engineer, presented the topic “How to Build Your Own Robot Army” in 2006; a presentation that resonated with me. I have created a robot squad to help me, not only in executing tests, but also configuring system and application settings, executing test tools/utilities, collecting data logs and analyzing test results. When I incorporated the robot squad into my testing, I realized time savings by offloading mundane tasks to the robots, allowing me to focus on the more complex portions of my work assignments.
This paper presentation will describe:
- How my robot squads help with testing
- Why I use robots rather than automated scripts
- What are my robots’ characteristics and attributes
- How I define my robots’ job functions
- How I make the robotic team productive
- How to share robots with others
2010 Technical Paper, Jerry Yang, Abstract
