Having followed best practices set from previous Selenium Conference talks, my team was able to shift from flaky tests to stable and reliable automated tests. During that time, I learned the importance of building trust in the test suite to unite the team as a whole. Once trust was established in the automated tests, it became crucial to the overall software development lifecycle. It has been an interesting journey to gain the confidence of the organization and have them believe that the automation effort has their backs.

In this talk I will cover the following topics:

1. Strategies that I used to make the tests reliable
2. Explaining why it was important to train the manual testers to write feature files and thus help expand the automation suite using their subject matter expertise
3. How the Microsoft SDLC tools were used to provide transparency into the test reports
4. Presenting the project status and test reports on a wallboard to reinforce trust

By implementing these steps in my organization, I have built trust not only within the test suite but into the team as a whole.

P.S. Can provide video if needed.