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The Practical Automation Playbook: A Roadmap for Test Success

The Practical Automation Playbook: A Roadmap for Test Success

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About the talk

In this TestMu 2025 session, 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬, Founder of The Lemonade Tech, brings over 17 years of QA and automation experience to share a proven framework for making automation fast, sustainable, and valuable. Having seen both failed projects and long-lasting successes, Amanda distills her lessons into a five-step playbook that helps teams avoid common traps, set meaningful goals, and build automation that sticks.

Through real-world client stories - from legacy platforms to modern applications - Amanda shows how to pick the right tests, tools, and approaches while staying focused on business outcomes. She also tackles the human side of automation, addressing fears around job security and the challenges of shifting from manual to automated testing.

Key Takeaways:

✔ Why most automation projects fail - and how to avoid the same fate.

✔ The five-step automation playbook: goals, resources, tests, increments, metrics.

✔ How to select the right tools and approaches for your team’s context.

✔ Real-world case studies: scaling automation across diverse platforms and white-label apps.

✔ How to measure automation success with the right metrics - not vanity numbers.

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