{"id":1091,"date":"2017-08-14T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2017-08-14T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:52:08","slug":"the-future-of-the-automation-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/the-future-of-the-automation-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of the automation engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I’ve\u00a0tried<\/em> to avoid writing about test automation since publishing The A Word<\/a>\u00a0four years ago, I suppose I should probably take some time soon to add a few more chapters before the book (like my last one) becomes largely obsolete.<\/p>\n

Not too long ago, I posted some predictions<\/a>. In those predictions, I said:<\/p>\n

Testers writing automation will become a rarity. […]testers won\u2019t write that much application automation. Unit and integration tests will be written by the developers on the team (w\/ coaching from the test specialist on their team as needed). The test expert on the team who code will more likely write diagnostic tools, frameworks for \u201cilities\u201d (perf, security \/ fuzzing, stress, etc.) \u2013 as well as other tools \/ processes \/ approaches that\u00a0accelerate the achievement of shippable quality.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few weeks ago, I spit out a small tweet storm about the same topic. The TL;DR version is that I have a strong opinion that the role of someone who solely writes automation for developer produced code will be gone soon. There’s just no good reason I can see anymore for developers to not write test automation for their own code.<\/p>\n

For a longer, and really, really well annotated version of my tweet-barf, please check out Richard Bradshaw’s excellent post here<\/a>. Richard was one of the people I thought I’d scare with my tweets. He’s been (as far as I know) in the role of a test automator for some time. But\u00a0he agreed with me<\/em>. He gets it. He sees it too, and he’s in the trenches doing this stuff, while I’m just a talking head most of the time.<\/p>\n

That means something.<\/p>\n

I know there are some readers who don’t follow me on twitter and may have missed this – but my tweets – and Richard’s further thoughts on the subject are important, and a “prediction” that I am absolutely confident will come to life.<\/p>\n

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