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* <span style="font-size: 16px">Management will be more ready to support you if you show quickly a return on investment</span>
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px">Management will be more ready to support you if you show quickly a return on investment</span>
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Implementation'''</span>=
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Implementation'''</span>=
<span style="font-size: 16px">Start to automate a [[STEEL THREAD]] or [[AUTOMATE WHAT'S NEEDED]]. </span>
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<span style="font-size: 16px">Start to automate a [[STEEL THREAD]] or [[AUTOMATE WHAT'S NEEDED]]. </span>If you support [[DATA-DRIVEN TESTING]] or [[KEYWORD-DRIVEN TESTING]] testers will be able to write automated test cases even before the SUT is fully implemented.<br />
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Potential problems'''</span>=
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Potential problems'''</span>=
<span style="font-size: 16px">If you support [[DATA-DRIVEN TESTING]] or [[KEYWORD-DRIVEN TESTING]] testers will be able to write automated test cases even before the SUT is fully implemented</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">Beware though of ''[[TOO EARLY AUTOMATION]]'': you would invest a lot of effort to produce only “noise”!</span>
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<span style="font-size: 16px"> <span style="font-size: 16px">Beware of ''[[TOO EARLY AUTOMATION]]'': you would invest a lot of effort to produce only “noise”!</span>
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Issues addressed by this pattern'''</span>=
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Issues addressed by this pattern'''</span>=
 
''<span style="font-size: 16px">[[HIGH ROI EXPECTATIONS]]</span>''
 
''<span style="font-size: 16px">[[HIGH ROI EXPECTATIONS]]</span>''
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Experiences'''</span>=
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Experiences'''</span>=
 
<span style="font-size: 16px">If you have used this pattern, please add your name and a brief story of how you used this pattern: your context, what you did, and how well it worked - or how it didn't work!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 14px">.................................................................................................................[[Main Page]] / Back to [[Management Patterns]] / Back to [[Test Automation Patterns]]</span></div>
 
<span style="font-size: 16px">If you have used this pattern, please add your name and a brief story of how you used this pattern: your context, what you did, and how well it worked - or how it didn't work!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 14px">.................................................................................................................[[Main Page]] / Back to [[Management Patterns]] / Back to [[Test Automation Patterns]]</span></div>

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Pattern summary

Start to automate as early as possible. The sooner automated tests can be run the sooner you can see results

Category

Management

Context

‍‍This pattern is needed if you want to have results as soon as possible

Description

Start to automate as early as possible. The sooner you can run automated tests the sooner you can get results:

  • if you work side by side with the developers from the very beginning, you will be able to see to it that the Software Under Test (SUT) is developed as TESTABLE SOFTWARE
  • the developers have feedback from the beginning
  • Management will be more ready to support you if you show quickly a return on investment

Implementation

Start to automate a STEEL THREAD or AUTOMATE WHAT'S NEEDED. If you support DATA-DRIVEN TESTING or KEYWORD-DRIVEN TESTING testers will be able to write automated test cases even before the SUT is fully implemented.

Potential problems

Beware of TOO EARLY AUTOMATION: you would invest a lot of effort to produce only “noise”!

Issues addressed by this pattern

HIGH ROI EXPECTATIONS

Experiences

If you have used this pattern, please add your name and a brief story of how you used this pattern: your context, what you did, and how well it worked - or how it didn't work!

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