Test Automation: Flexible Way

Alexey Ieshin, Vadim Dmitriev, Marina Gerenko

F-Secure is a global leader in providing security as a service through ISP’s and mobile operators. The company went to Agile more than 5 years ago and is still in the transition and building the true Agile culture. Test automation (TA) is one of Agile practices that the company has been focusing on and improving lately. This paper describes how TA has been implemented in the company, benefits and drawbacks of different approaches, and key learnings. Our findings may be of interest and help for other Agile teams using or building a test automation system.

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Alexey Ieshin

Bio

Alexey Ieshin graduated from Physics Department of St. Petersburg University.
He was engaged in scientific activity, has a number of publications.
Joined F-Secure company in 2007.
Participated in test framework creation and its further deployment to the quality assurance process at the company level.
Now he is consulting the other F-Secure teams actively and helps to take the framework and other test automation practices into use at the team level.