Automated Testing on Agile Teams Aimee DeWitt Tina Lockwood

Tina Lockwood Bio

Aimee DeWitt Bio

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BRNDEXP © 2014 Cerner Corporation. All rights reserved. This document contains Cerner confidential and/or proprietary information belonging to Cerner Corporation and/or its related affiliates which may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the express written consent of Cerner 14 Duplicating Automation Efforts If you have multiple teams, make sure you share as much automation as you possibly can. Create shared repositories and put this into your planning meetings. For some this might be your starting point. Building your actual reusable components. Understand what your developers are writing in their automation efforts. If they did it in Whitebox testing do you need it in Blackbox testing? Some might, some might not.

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” “ 17 BRNDEXP © 2014 Cerner Corporation. All rights reserved. This document contains Cerner confidential and/or proprietary information belonging to Cerner Corporation and/or its related affiliates which may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the express written consent of Cerner Automate everything until you can’t Tina Lockwood Cerner Corporation Solution Manager

” “ 18 BRNDEXP © 2014 Cerner Corporation. All rights reserved. This document contains Cerner confidential and/or proprietary information belonging to Cerner Corporation and/or its related affiliates which may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the express written consent of Cerner Understand the benefits of what you are automating before you start. Not everything should be automated. Aimee DeWitt Cerner Corporation Sr. Test Analyst

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