The document discusses Pankaj Nakhat, an agile and automation test consultant with 10 years of experience working with major media, investment banking, and product companies. It then outlines some key principles for automation testing like maintainability, reusability, and scalability. Finally, it recommends technologies like Selenium, JBehave, and Hudson/Jenkins for building a robust and maintainable test automation framework.

1. Pankaj Nakhat
Agile and Automation Test Consultant
pankaj@qainfolabs.com
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/pankajnakhat
http://pankajnakhat.com/blog

2. » Agile and Automation Test Consultant
» 10 Years of experience in Agile Testing,
Coaching and Consulting
» With Major media , Investment Banking and
Product based companies.
» Pankaj Nakhat
˃ http://www.pankajnakhat.com/blog
˃ pankaht@gmail.com
˃ +44 7799663003
˃ +91 9799056600

3. » Maintainability
» Reusability
» Usability
» Scalability
» Reliability

4. » Dynamic nature of web pages
» Ever changing Javascript world and Browser
Capabilities
» Simulating real user experience
» Writing automation test at a low level (E.g > click ,
select )
» Robust handling of environment and response
slowness
» Reporting point of failure specifically in terms of a
feature

5. » Multi Tier Automation Architecture
» Write test in Domain specific languages
» Intelligent Synchronization based on the
context of the test
» Separating Test intent and Implementation
» Using abstraction techniques to write
maintainable test code.
» Using multi Threaded technologies like
Selenium Grid for Scalability of the tests

6. » Selenium 2.0 (Webdriver)
˃ Advanced browser testing API
» Jbehave
˃ BDD Tool to support writing Test in language people speak.
» Hudson (Or Any other CI Tool)
˃ To support continuous integration approach

7. Jbehave Scenarios
QAs/BAs/SMEs
Page Object Definition
Tech QAs / Developers
Test Data, Utilities, Harness, Locators etc
QAs Tech QA / Devs

8. » Webdriver is an Advanced API to interact
with browser
» Clean API enables to write robust
Automation Solution
» Browsers Supported – Firefox, IE, Chrome,
Safari, HTMLUnit, Iphone, Android
» Supports various programming languages –
Java, C#, Python, etc
» Java is supported out of the box

9. » Behaviour Driven Development tool
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Development
» Tests can be written in English (Or Any other Language)
» Testers can be given a Domain Specific Language to test
» Tests are expressed in Given, When and Then Syntax
» Tests are written in business language, rather then low level
web language which is hard to maintain.
» Can be used for Web, Integration or API Testing.
» Example (Google mail)
˃ Given I login to Google mail
˃ When I go to my inbox
˃ Then there are 20 new emails
Comes with a Maven plugin to integrate with any build tool viz Bamboo, Hudson, Cruise Control etc

10. » Advance Reporting

11. » Tagging of scenarios – For requirement
Traceability
» Story Maps – For Better Coverage Reports
» Web Interface to execute scenarios
» Full control on the implementation of the
Tests
» Keeps Test intent and Implementation
Separate
» Steps Dictionary – To enable easy finding of
existing Test steps

12. » Framework should be light weight
» Test code should be as good as Prod. Code
» Test API should be neat and self documented
» Page object pattern is one of the widely accepted
techniques
˃ E.g >
public void login(String userName, String Password) {
Pages.loginPage().open();
Pages.loginPage().login(userName, password)
.verifyUserIsLoggedIn();
}

13. » Open source tools have big user community
» Platform and tools inter dependent
» Tried and tested for years
» Support XP, Agile development methodologies
» Enable automation engagement from different
stakeholders of the project
» Scalable Cloud solutions available