Herman Ching
QA Engineer
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6 years of experience. I started off as a Java Tester, so off the bat my career was very technical. I used selenium primarily in career but I do testing outside of front end automation to improve efficiencies in the software cycle. I advocate working harder to do less and most of all to work with another. The greatest challenge with automation is that it's pain and reward is not shared. I am working hard to make automation testing exciting and integral of testers, developers, product, ux and the remaining stakeholders. I hope I can share what I have learned and get more people exciting about testing in the next era.
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Using genetic algorithm to do exploratory testing with cucumber and selenium.
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Writing selenium tests has an inherent problem in which we can only automate what we know the steps for. It is primarily used for regression and can scale very quickly. We generally optimize regression for sprint's relevant features or have smoke tests to get quicker feedback. In addition negative testing is very expensive to write. This entire process is very manual and the maintenance of tests become more costly than the actual writing of tests.
We can change this. By using genetic algorithm and cucumber steps we can create new feature files to discover where in the application may be be problematic. The goal of each individual would be to find the most defect. The two individuals that find the most defects then create children that follows the sequences of how new individuals are form through genetic algorithms. They will breed the next generation of testers which will focus on problematic areas.
Let's find out when and if this strategy can be deemed effectively.
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