Hero’s Journey to Perfect System Tests - Eight Assessment Criteria for Tests’ Architecture Design

What is the quest of every QA Hero? It is to find the golden recipe for the perfect system tests’ design- describing how to achieve fast, reliable, easy to understand and maintain tests. Anton Angelov is going to tell you his story of how he managed to complete this quest. The journey is going to introduce common problems and mistakes to you in the process of designing test automation frameworks, such as not following single responsibility principle, not enough code reuse, and bad object-oriented programming (OOP) design. The author is going to share with you how he and his teammates managed to solve these issues through the application of eight assessment criteria. Usually, people want to improve their tests but do not have quality metrics to determine which version of their improvements is most beneficial to their projects. The presented assessment framework can help you to figure out which is the best possible enhancement that you need to introduce into your system tests and so make them more stable, reliable and maintainable.