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Alternative ways of learning programming from scratch – first

steps in Automated QA career

Anton Semenchenko

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What is Automated QA?Any automation is the process of reducing the volume of

human involvement in an activity up to complete exclusion

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What is Automated QA?QA Automation is the process of reducing human

involvement in QA process up to complete exclusion (ideally) by means of specialized software and hardware

tools, programming languages and other means.

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Why Automate?• Reduces human error possibility• Allows running routine and high-volume tasks on

regular basis• Speeds-up testing process thus reducing testing

cycles• Able to work with huge datasets• It’s ultimately repeatable• Many more (a topic for a separate talk)

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Who is Automated QA specialist?“When people ask me what my job is, I just say: I write

software that tests other software. It’s the only omnibus way to describe the job of automated QA specialist without

going into unnecessary detail”-Unknown Automated QA specialist

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Who is Automated QA specialist?

Automated QA specific knowledge and skills:

• Software testing• Programming (often several languages)

• More• DevOps

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Is it easy to learn programming?Yes! If you follow the next guidelines:

• Basic concepts are as simple as possible• Tasks have applied nature and the benefit from

there is real• Lessons have fun and playful approach• Gamification of studying process

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Choose a tool+

Romo

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High-level programming language• Supports various programming paradigms

• Dynamic typification

• Automatic memory management

• Handy data structures

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• Visual programming taken to extreme

• Programming using a set of standard "puzzle blocks"

• Complete algorithmization without a single line of code• Code compilation in JavaScript, Dart or Python

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• Web and desktop editors

• Integrated UI-designer

• Illustrative implementation of the MVC approach

• Programming of the logic with Blockly• Upload completed application directly to the phone

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• A visual representation of the classes diagram

• A simplified Java version

• Automatically generates "stubs" in code

• Generates Wiki-pages for classes

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• Games design editor

• Visual programming of character`s behavior

• Immediate check of work results• Provokes a flight of fantasy

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• A funny robot from your iPod or iPhone

• Simple instructions with maximum visual embodiment

• Faces and forms recognition• Visual programming directly on the device screen

Romo

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Romo

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• The Lego-kit with a set of engines and sensors

• Development using a simple visual programming language• Mobile devices integration• Multithreaded programming• Programming of interruptions

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• Automation of applied tasks on a PC

• Performing actions based on image recognition• Simple IDE with a standard commands set

• Full-scale Python-like algorithms• Fine-tuning of recognition accuracy

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• Visual programming of robots using diagrams

• Modeling of the robot’s behavior in a virtual environment

• Enables moving from diagrams to the text-based programming languages

• Allows a programming of Lego Mindstorms Robots

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Scratch

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Scratch

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Sum up

• have built-in lessons, or detailed documentation

• have maximum demonstrativeness

• solve the problems which have applied nature and entertaining nature

All the presented tools:

• imply a creative approach

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Linkshttps://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/https://developers.google.com/blockly/http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/http://www.bluej.org/http://www.microsoft.com/ru-ru/softmicrosoft/kodu.aspxhttps://romotive.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200912916-Overview-How-to-play-with-your-Romohttp://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/downloadshttp://www.sikuli.org/http://www.trikset.com/www.scratch.mit.edu

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Thanks for your attentionAnton Semenchenko

EPAM Systemswww.comaqa.by

www.corehard.by