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Stacking The Automation Deck - Paul Grizzafi

13th January 2023

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Paul Grizzaffi

Principal Automation Architect

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Talk Description

Arranging the playing cards in a deck to be in one’s favor is called stacking the deck. Outside of card playing, we use the term more generally to mean arranging a situation to increase our chances of a favorable outcome. When it comes to automation endeavors, the meaning is no different. Specifically, we want to arrange our architecture, implementation, and usage patterns to be appropriate for our endeavor’s desired life-span.

One approach to future-proofing is to focus less on the automation framework and more on the automation stack. An automation stack is a layered automation architecture where each layer builds upon the previous one and provides an audience-appropriate interface to the lower levels’ capabilities. This layered approach helps extend an implementation’s longevity by increasing the portability of the implementation across frameworks and across tools.

Join me as we walk through how layers can be a valuable part of an automation implementation, some caveats that should be considered when layering an architecture, and several examples of layered architectures of which I've been a part. Come and learn ways to stack the deck in YOUR favor.

Takeaways:

Layered architectures give us options on how to use them
They can be used in different frameworks
They can be used for non-traditional automation
Appropriate stewardship is required
Appropriate logging and error message are critical

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Paul Grizzaffi

Principal Automation Architect

As a Principal Automation Architect at Magenic, Paul Grizzaffi is following his passion of providing technology solutions to testing and QA organizations, including automation assessments, implementations, and through activities benefiting the broader testing community. An accomplished keynote speaker and writer, Paul has spoken at both local and national conferences and meetings. He is an advisor to Software Test Professionals and STPCon, as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas where he is a frequent guest lecturer. Paul enjoys sharing his experiences and learning from other testing professionals; his mostly cogent thoughts can be read on his blog at https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/.

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