How would **you** start getting developers to automate tests?
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Ideas
- Set standards for how to work including ownership and routing of work
- Talk to the team to understand their thoughts on automated testing
- Investigate, by talking to the team, what is stopping them from doing it right now
- Find relevant stakeholders to drive the change
- RCA to work out the cause of issues/bugs. Align perceptions of the impact of those bugs.
- Work to address any mindset that testers are simply machines to relieve work from devs.
- Create a checklist for merging changes
- Work with developers to help them understand the end product. Sometimes they are hampered by lack of understanding what the product actually does.
- Address any skills gap in writing tests
- Experiment with one team first. Get them to be evangelists. They should have a positive story to tell.
- Use a workshop focussed on writing some tests and have a retro to understand what the real issues are
- Create an Enabling Team (Team Topologies lingo) of trainers. The trainers must come from previous success and have gravitas
- Invest in ensuring that the automation creates robust, fast feedback. Convert from slow feedback loops to fast feedback loops