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Test Automation at Sage Pay

Sarah Alhawi

Quality Assurance Engineer

Sage Pay

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100%�reliable

Priority support:

UK based, 365 days a year

Online, face to face, phone and invoice payments

We have over 50,000 businesses as our customer

We securely process over 258m payments worth 21bn

Sage Pay

At a glance

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Sage Pay

Payments processing

£1 billion transactions per month

Around 20% Market Share

Integrates with major platforms

99.997% Availability

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Business that never stops

What we have achieved

6200% increase

in code releases

24hrs delivery time

to customers

85% fewer bugs

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QUALITY

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TIME

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    • TDD
    • BDD
    • Pair Programming
    • Considering security

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Pillars of Testing

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    • Pair programming (developer/tester)
    • CI
    • Little Manual Testing
    • Develop the new functionality/a change in the code
    • Delivering small changes every week

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Weekly Iterations

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TDD and BDD

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    • Start with writing tests and make them fail (for the right reason)

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    • Focus on making the tests pass(TDD)

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    • Focus on user behaviour- the normal and the paranoid

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Categories of Testing

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    • Exploratory
    • End-to-end
    • Component
    • Integration
    • Unit

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Spoofing

Tampering

Repudiation

Information Disclosure

Denial of Service

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Elevation of Privilege

Security

Do everything with security in mind

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Successful Releases

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Reduction in bugs

Availability

>99.95%

New Bugs

85% decrease

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Summing Up

  • Development Culture – work together

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  • Test Visualisation

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  • Security – the bigger picture

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  • Confidence in Releases

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  • 99.997 uptime

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  • Very low number of bugs

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Contact Information

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LinkedIn: Sarah Alhawi

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Blog: SarahIsTesting