Because the human mind is the most expensive resource, don’t spend it where you don’t have to.
The automation principle is one sentence long, but it points a dozen directions at once.
Teams are usually all-or-nothing in automation. Once a team realizes how lovely it is to not-think on no-thinking-required tasks, they jump right in and build or tune all their tools for maximum advantage.
Don’t you worry, I’m just sure your team will be one of those easy ones. If that’s the case, you can just skip this article and make a cash donation to the charity of your choice.
Urgency + Automation
Ahhh, yes, not one of the lucky ones, eh?
Your first challenge is just to decide what your first challenge is. The sheer number of possible automation stories is daunting: it’s one of the biggest reasons I advocate the half-and-half transition. A sizable portion of your energy can then be given just to tackling automation stories.
The Inner Cycle
The inner TDD cycle is always the most urgent target for automation.
We need a single-step for “save my changes, compile/link/copy, and if there are no errors, launch the microtests-of-interest”.
- Save my changes: Many almost-ready automation sequences shortchange this step, but it’s important. You never want to run your microtests against the code before your changes.
- Compile/Link/Copy: The two most important issues are the 100% problem (for optimal builds), and for some teams, the need to take binaries and put them in the ‘right’ place for running.
- Run Microtests-Of-Interest: some teams stumble here. The final step of the inner cycle is to run and examine the microtest results. Starting the actual program running is not a necessity.
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It’s important to understand that we are not looking for three separate gestures here. We want all of the above action to happen with a single gesture.
Integrate It!
Next after the inner cycle is integration. This time, it’s not a single gesture:
- Show Me Everything I Changed: The output should be in the identical tree shape of the source. If you made some changes you don’t want, revert them here.
- Merge Out: Bring me everyone else’s changes, with a merge system for each collision between my changes and theirs.
- Run Inner Cycle: We’re not done merging out until the microtests run green.
- Commit Everything I Changed: Usually there’s another round of show-me here, followed by the actual commit.
When we can do all four of these actions with simple and thoughtless gestures, we’re in good shape.
The Trap Trio
The integration automation is a good place to consider the three most likely coaching difficulties, as they each can be found there. These are all noob problems: an experienced automater sees these situations all the time, but doesn’t fall for them.
All-Or-Nothing-At-All: Engineers, yo. They get trapped here because they can’t think of an automated solution that solves every conceivable variant. This is an easy one to resolve: teach them how to implement their scripts and macros as fail-fast. If our scripts can establish that it’s a situation they can’t handle, then they can fail right out. Sometimes 91.5% is just fine.
Mind-In-The-Middle: Automation can’t work because there are some sub-steps that absolutely require human intervention. No, that’s not quite it. It’s because there are a bunch of mind-needed sub-steps, spread throughout the process. This problem might fall as in all-or-nothing: automate what you can, don’t sweat what you can’t. But more likely, a clever person can smoosh the sub-steps in time, so that the mindful parts are all in the same place. Then we just leave that single hole in our automation and have everything else mechanical as can be.
More Controls = More Control: This one’s endemic. Folks who couldn’t code a fucking for-loop sitting in front of the jet cockpit of a universally-mandated fabulously-expensive entirely-wasted version control system like they have some clue what they’re doing. These systems justify their wretched excess on the theory that they give you every conceivable control over your integrations. Agilists in particular should not buy this theory. The resolution? It’s a combination of the two that just came: rearrange mindful steps, and settle for less than perfect solutions. In particular, don’t be afraid to write front-end scripts that quietly drive the VCS for the most typical variant.
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