Topic: Facilitating the Move from Predominantly Manual Testing to an Automated Test Environment

This presentation will present proven techniques and lessons learned for facilitating an organization’s move from predominantly manual testing to an automated test environment. To support this move, the presentation will present a strategy and plan for building a successful automation testing team, a necessary component for success. With such a team and the techniques presented, you can progressively build on and leverage small successes to incrementally build your automated regression test libraries and eventually end up with fully automated regression test cycles. Result: dramatically reduced testing costs and greatly increased test coverage for your projects – a win-win for your company! Have a need to move from manual testing approaches to automated ones, to support increasingly agile methodologies and reduced development windows? Come find out how it’s been done at several major area companies.
Tim Leach is a Systems Consulting Manager with Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS), in their Human Capital Management Solutions division, where he leads the test automation group and guides project teams migrating to test automation. He also mentors and coaches project teams on improving their end-to-end testing and quality management processes. Tim has worked in the quality and testing field for over 20 years, in various industries including the Financial, Insurance, and Communications industries, before assuming his current position with ACS, a business and IT process outsourcing firm. Tim holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Business Administration from the University of the Cumberlands, and a CSTP (Certified Software Testing Professional) certification from the International Institute for Software Testing (IIST).

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Facilitating the Move from Predominantly Manual Testing to an Automated Test Environment