Proof of Work for a Test Automation
Olli Kulkki
Bughunter, Testing and Quality Assurance Specialist in Tech | Skilled in Cross-Disciplinary Projects | Expert in FinTech, Telecom, Media | Focused on Long-term Client Satisfaction & Team Innovation
Building test automation is like expensive Lego. After you finish building the death star, do you actually keep playing with it or is it placed on the mantel between your bowling ball and football trophies ?
Proof of Concept. Minimum Viable Product. Most Valuable Player. Whichever acronym we use, the context is pretty similar: Work matters, Results count. Are you making yourself useful.
We can measure Test Automation in many ways. We can measure the benefits of Test Automation in many ways. We can measure completion of the automation tasks in many ways. Measuring matters, but how about the results?
I want to challenge using only these observable measurements of running test automation, and add a historian layer that we can statistically benefit from. Proof of Work for a Test Automation. Agnostic of the solution, technology, application or people behind it.
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Using your abilities of critical thinking, you will find which part in Proof of Work is useful for you in your context. Ideas and concepts are normally transferable between any domain from healthcare and spaceships to daily banking and agriculture.
Love statistics. Plot some graphs. Take a step forward. Go ahead for your leap of faith and leave the ordinary Pass or fail behind.
The author wishes to help the development environment hold the weather and reduce the number of disappointments experienced by millions of people in everyday life.
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2 年This is something that I doubt rare companies are utilizing. We say that knowledge is power, and data is valuable. But if we put that data to waste and do not transfer it into knowledge, we are people who build expensige legos putting them to shelf to collect dust and forget (and worstly keep wanting more of those expensive legos , new technologies, more automation). Own that data, empower your knowledge.