These are the slides I used for my 2009 Agile Tour Toronto talk on web automation. The reference tool was Selenium and I talked about attributes of successful scripts, the Selenium value chain, audience, smells, and patterns.

1. From Start to Success with
Web Automation
Adam Goucher
http://adam.goucher.ca

2. Key Practices to Agile Testing

3. Key Practices to Agile Testing
Collective Test
Test Driven Development
Ownership
Continuous Integration Exploratory Testing
Automated
Rehearsed Release
Business Tests
Automated Acceptance Test Driven
Technical Tests Development

4. Key Practices to Agile Testing
Exploratory Testing
Automated
Business Tests
Acceptance Test Driven
Development

5. Successful
automation
is...

6. Paranoid

7. Efficient &
Effective

8. A student of
History &
Linguistics

9. Intelligent &
Wise

10. Modest

11. Automates
Checks &
Facilitates
Testing

12. Know your audience

15. Evolution of a script

16. Record

17. Add Power

18. Conquer Permutation
Madness!

19. Smells

20. Patterns

21. Available October 30,
2009
All profits to Nothing
But Nets to help prevent
the spread of Malaria

22. web - http://adam.goucher.ca
email - adam@goucher.ca
twitter - @adamgoucher

23. Photo Credits
Title and Credits - http://www.mensracing.com/photos/2004/olympictrials04/index19.html
Practices - http://www.everystockphoto.com/gotoImage.php?imageId=2964174
Attributes - http://www.flickr.com/photos/helios89/1373343153/
Paranoid - http://www.flickr.com/photos/49054242@N00/303425378/
Effective & Efficient - http://thereifixedit.com/2009/10/13/for-the-true-wine-connoisseur/
Student of... - http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadianveggie/92307413/
Intelligent & Wise - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/174945434/
Modest - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmahendra/3099968453/
Checking & Testing - http://www.flickr.com/photos/8840244@N04/3644022974/
Audience - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwhitlock/4017489632/
Geek - http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliapatriciaroy/3523389278/
Not Geek - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rangerholton/1231298396/
Evolution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/marj_k/2191884068/
Record - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zabowski/335256864/
Power - http://www.flickr.com/photos/alkhodarev/513119493/
Madness - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaxxon/3157745377/
Smells - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mightyboybrian/125863153/