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Agile, Automation, BAT, Process Improvement, Testing

Getting up to BAT: Adding BATs to Your Acceptance Criteria

by John Sonmez 

April

12

2011

So now that we have built our automation framework, and got our smoke tests running as part of the build, we now need to make sure new BATs are being created for new backlogs. This is definitely one of the more challenging [ read more...]

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Android, Cool Stuff, Language, Self Improvement

Published My First Course on Pluralsight

by John Sonmez 

April

12

2011

My number of blog posts in the last couple of months has definitely been a little lower than I like, but I have a pretty good reason. I just got my first course published on Pluralsight! The course is called Android Development [ read more...]

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Automation, BAT, Best Practices, Infrastructure, Testing

Getting up to BAT: Adding Smoke Tests to Your Build

by John Sonmez 

April

5

2011

Once you’ve built some smoke tests with your shiny new automation framework, you are going to want to get those smoke tests up and running as soon as possible… But!  You might want to consider holding off for a second and reading [ read more...]

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Automation, BAT, Frameworks, Guest Post, Testing, Web Development

Guest Post: The Cross-Browser Compatibility Myth

by John Sonmez 

March

22

2011

This post is a special guest post from my wife, Heather Sonmez, who is an expert on the subject of blackbox automated tests and designing frameworks for them.  She has designed successful automation frameworks for several companies.  She deals with software automation [ read more...]

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BAT, Design, Frameworks, Interview

Getting Up to BAT: Hiring an Automation Lead

by John Sonmez 

February

23

2011

This is my first in a series of posts about getting to fully automated blackbox testing, or BAT, as I like to call it. In my last post in the Back to Basics series, I mentioned that I would begin this series [ read more...]

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Automation, Best Practices, Functional, Process Improvement, Testing, UI, Unit Testing, User

Back to Basics: Becoming BAT Man

by John Sonmez 

February

5

2011

In my Back to Basics post on my conclusions about blackbox automated tests (BATs) and unit testing, I said that we should: Spend a majority of your effort, all the time you would have spent writing unit tests, instead writing what I [ read more...]

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