Scott Rodgers

I am always looking for ways to help others learn. I am volunteer for BSA, helping with training such as National Youth Leadership Training and Woodbadge.

I found the PNSQC while looking for a QA conference to attend and saw that they were looking for presenters. I thought that their pasted conference content looked like really good topics and speakers, so I felt I could also add with my experience for this years conference.

It is meant to help both the beginner and SDET with creating an automation framework. They should understand the basics of QA, such as test-cases, white-box vs black-box testing, and have a desire to learn how to write automation.

http://testng.org/doc/index.html www.seleniumhq.org/

The challenge for software quality will always be “How fast can the QA team get this tested?” which appears to never be fast enough.

As an industry there needs to be better, faster, smarter ways to test software. There is always increase man power. Increase the amount of manual testing. There is writing more automation. There is purchasing other software to help get the testing done. There is farming it out to a service provider.Just to name a few, but I feel that automation offers the best possible solution to this challenge.

It can be done with a basic framework, which allows for rapid creation of test that cover the test-cases that need to be ran each release. This all done at very low cost compared to a manual testing. It doesn’t eliminate the need for manual testing, just reduces how much that needs to be done.