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Paul Grizzaffi

Paul Grizzaffi
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As a QE Automation Architect at Cognizant Softvision, Paul Grizzaffi is following his passion for providing technology solutions to testing, QE, and QA organizations, including automation assessments, implementations, and through activities benefiting the broader testing community. An accomplished keynote speaker, international conference speaker, and writer, Paul has spoken at local and national conferences and meetings. He is an advisor to STPCon as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas where he is a frequent guest lecturer. In addition to spending time with his twins, Paul enjoys sharing his experiences and learning from other testing professionals, as well as reciting lyrics from 80s metal songs; his mostly cogent thoughts can be read on his blog at https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/.

Company
FreedomPay
Job Function
Architecture - Design
Job Title
QE Solutions Architect
Industry
Computer Software - SaaS
Interests
Agile
Architecture
CI/CD and Containerization
Cloud
Configuration Management
DevOps
DevSecOps
Leadership
Open Source
Software Development
Test Automation
Testing/QA
Testing
Country
United States
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Paul Grizzaffi

As a QE Automation Architect at Cognizant Softvision, Paul Grizzaffi is following his passion for providing technology solutions to testing, QE, and QA organizations, including automation assessments, implementations, and through activities benefiting the broader testing community. An accomplished keynote speaker, international conference speaker, and writer, Paul has spoken at local and national conferences and meetings. He is an advisor to STPCon as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas where he is a frequent guest lecturer. In addition to spending time with his twins, Paul enjoys sharing his experiences and learning from other testing professionals, as well as reciting lyrics from 80s metal songs; his mostly cogent thoughts can be read on his blog at https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/. 

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Data—binary code The Value of Making Your Data Sources Reusable across Test Automation ToolsMany automation tools have a mechanism for storing data used in their test scripts. Typically, the specifics of this mechanism is different across tools, making it difficult to use this data outside the tool itself. Using an external, reusable data source allows organizations to avoid the cost of migrating or duplicating existing data, thereby future-proofing their frameworks.
Test automation frameworks Heresy! Automation Does Not Require Test CasesTraditionally, automated scripts are derived from existing test cases. But if we divorce the notion of “automation” from the notions of “test cases” and “test scripts,” we can think of automation as a judicious use of technology to help humans do their jobs. This broadens our world to include different tools that can help testers increase coverage, test faster, and detect trends.
two people with gears moving above heads Behavior-Driven Development and Automation: Establishing Order

Though automation is often mentioned in the same breath as behavior-driven development, they are not equally important. If you want to use behavior-driven development, do just that: Work on getting the approach right, and forget about the automation at first. Here's why you should think of automation as more of a bonus to the BDD process.