Atomic Talk Title: @#%!, Jim…I’m a Tester, Not A Programmer

The common automation of late include statements such as “automation is code” and “automation is programming”. I’ve said them; I even believe them. So that means you need a computer science degree or years of programming experience to develop and use automation, right?
No!
If we abandon the traditional notion of test automation, most of us have automation capabilities at our fingertips that can help us with testing, but we don’t always know it because no one ever explained it to us in that context. This talk will help with that.
During this session, we’ll walk through an example of using some text processing command line commands, see how they can be useful, and give an overview of additional commands that can come in handy.

Talk Takeaways

• You don’t need to have programming experience to take advantage of automation.
•  Automation doesn’t have to come from test cases.
•  Different ways of participating in automation without having to program.
•  The command line is your friend and has many text processing tools to help with testing.
•  Some examples of command line scripting.