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| <H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">Implementation</H1>
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| <P>Agile testing guru and automation expert Brian Marick
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| coined the term “Hump of Pain” to describe the initial phase of
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| implementing test automation. The impact of this hump can be
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| minimised by good planning, good coaching and a strong managerial
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| support for the new processes. As time progresses, particularly as
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| infrastructure becomes implemented, the test cases in the automated
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| suite are completed and the introduced practices become second
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| nature; the hump disappears.</P>
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| <H2 CLASS="western">Agile Implementation of Testing
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| Practices</H2>
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| <P>Modifications to the process should be made in an incremental
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| manner based up scrum methodology. A series of 2 weekly sprints will
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| be used to time-box test planning and implementation tasks.</P>
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| <H2 CLASS="western">Phase 1: Infrastructure and the
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| Integration Process</H2>
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| <P>The infrastructure to maintain automated testing
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| effort must be implemented. This process will start with the
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| installation of cloud based hardware at Moodle HQ and the setup of
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| VM's to support the required test environments.</P>
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| <P>The integration process affects quality for the whole
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| organisation as all code must go through the integration process to
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| become 'live'. The processes described above will will be initially
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| implemented at integration. Any changes to the existing processes
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| will take place side-by-side with existing processes to manage risk.
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| i.e. existing processes impacted by changes will be maintained in
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| their current state until implementation of changes becomes stable.</P>
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| <P>The setup of test environments will initially start
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| with a restricted number of high risk test environments so that the
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| automation process, particularly test cases, can be developed
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| incrementally.</P>
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