Breaking the Habit of Manual Testing

Project and Program: Enterprise-wide, DevOps in the Enterprise

Tags: Proceedings, SHARE Virtual Experience 2021

Discuss techniques and tools for mainframe testing used historically and even today. Discuss reasons why manual testing is prevalent on the mainframe.

- Processes and tasks maintained by existing workforce since ''waterfall age'' ... [resistance to change]

- Automation ROI seems negligible: ''Manual test case executed in minutes'' ... [misleading assessment]

- New joiners faced with paradigm: ''Don't touch it, it has always been this way'' ... [heritage barrier]

Open suggestions to overcome the generic challenges towards test automation. Bottom line should be ''learn from what works'' and how test automation works in distributed and cloud environments.

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