Inclusive Automation and Testing with Jupyter Notebooks — feat. Brendan Connolly (Construction management platform)

Show notes

A Eurostar Rising Star on inclusive automation that supports testers rather than replacing them. Brendan Connolly, winner of Eurostar's Rising Star award for his blog on inclusive automation, argues that automation is too often exclusive, leaving out both categories of tests and the testers who execute them. He unpacks the creator, executor and consumer personas to clarify who automation actually serves and why so many automation efforts fail when run by one person as a black box. He champions using Jupyter Notebooks to blend executable code and markdown into living documentation, letting testers script through exploratory journeys, cross third-party service boundaries and reuse page objects and APIs interactively. He is skeptical of chasing test quantity for bragging rights, favoring a handful of contract-focused regression tests, better communication of value to stakeholders, crowd tes