Your automation is only as good as the person using it

Max Kolotilkin

Automation Engineer @ Wix

About Wix

Wix in Numbers

• 40,000,000 Users– Adding over 1,000,000 new users each month

• 3 Data centers + 2 clouds (Google AE, Amazon)– Around 300 servers

• Static storage is over 200TB of data– Adding over 1TB of files every day

• Over 450 people work at Wix– ~150 people in the R&D

• 400 deployments a month– Continuous delivery

The Automation Way

Automation is a major player in continuous delivery processes

It is a huge discipline with an unlimited amount of possible approaches

Helps not only QA, but other company’s divisions as well

The Automation Way

A lot of the automation projects are not being used as commonly as expected

NecessityStabilityWriting\running timesMaintenance etc.’

It all comes down to usability of your automation project

The Automation Way

How can we make sure that users are really gaining from your

automation project ?

The Automation Way

a) User Oriented Implementation

b) Ease of use

c) Keeping your automation alive

User Oriented Implementation Ease of use Keeping your automation alive

User oriented implementation

What are your goals?

a) In most cases you can find a lot of value automating a process

b) What are your trying to achieve ?

The Human factor

a) Understand their day to day work

b) Understand their needs

User Oriented Implementation Ease of use Keeping your automation alive

User oriented implementation

TechnologyAgile implementation

a) Don’t be afraid of changes

b) Provide “rapid value” to the users

c) Get feedback – make the user part of the development process

d) Build your test project correctly

User Oriented Implementation Ease of use Keeping your automation alive

Make your automation easy to use

Understandable automation

Accessibility

Basic common means of analysis

Automate the triggering process

User Oriented Implementation Ease of use Keeping your automation alive

Keep your automation project alive

Keeps your tests valida) Maintenance

b) Availability

SupportBe there for your users, don’t leave them hanging

User Oriented Implementation Ease of use Keeping your automation alive

If you write it….

They will come !