This is a presentation given at the Hangzhou Scrum Forum 2009, sponsored by Perficient, China. The topic is how to incorporate automated functional testing into an agile project, and also some best practices, tips, and warnings.
www.perficient.com
This is a presentation given at the Hangzhou Scrum Forum 2009, sponsored by Perficient, China. The topic is how to incorporate automated functional testing into an agile project, and also some best practices, tips, and warnings.
www.perficient.com
Building a Test Automation Strategy for SuccessLee Barnes
Choosing an appropriate tool and building the right framework are typically thought of as the main challenges in implementing successful test automation. However, long term success requires that other key questions must be answered including:
- What are our objectives?
- How should we be organized?
- Will our processes need to change?
- Will our test environment support test automation?
- What skills will we need?
- How and when should we implement?
In this workshop, Lee will discuss how to assess your test automation readiness and build a strategy for long term success. You will interactively walk through the assessment process and build a test automation strategy based on input from the group. Attend this workshop and you will take away a blue print and best practices for building an effective test automation strategy in your organization.
• Understand the key aspects of a successful test automation function
• Learn how to assess your test automation readiness
• Develop a test automation strategy specific to your organization
This is my complete introductory course for Software Test Automation.If you need full training that includes different automation tools (Selenium, J-Meter, Burp, SOAP UI etc), feel free to contact me by email (amraldo@hotmail.com) or by mobile (+201223600207).
Let's explore what is agile testing, how agile testing is different than traditional testing. What practices team has to adopt to have parallel testing and how to create your own test automation framework. Test automation frameworks using cucumber, selenium, junit, nunit, rspec, coded UI etc.
From http://wiki.directi.com/x/AgAa - This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing
Test Automation
Test automation is the use of test automation software like Selenium or self-developed testware to execute test cases.
Test automation is mostly used to automate repetitive testing tasks in a formalized way. It is also used to execute tests that would be difficult to perform manually like performance testing.
There are many advantages of test automation that are mostly related to the repeatability of the tests and the speed of test execution. There are a lot of commercial and open source tools available which can be grouped into two main categories; Code-Driven and Graphical User Interface Testing. Thus the key success factor in test automation is selecting the right tool and have a specialized test automation team.
It is to use test automation tools by considering ROI (return on investment). Otherwise it is quite easy to waste big amount of energy, commitment and definitely money.
With more than 500 clients, Keytorc is the leading software testing company in EMEA region that have competencies of automating any kind of software in diverse industries.
For more information about test automation tools and Keytorc’s test automation service you can contact with our performance test engineers: www.keytorc.com or blogs.keytorc.com
Test Otomasyonu:
Test otomasyonu özellikle tekrarlayan ve manuel olarak yapılması zor olan testlerin Selenium gibi test otomasyon araçları kullanılarak ya da özel olarak geliştirilen test otomasyon scriptleri ile yapılmasıdır. Bu bakımdan:
- Regresyon testleri
- Performans testleri
- Yük ve Stres testleri
- Test yönetimi
test otomasyonuna en uygun test tipleri ve aktiviteleridir.
Test otomasyonunun en büyük faydaları:
- testlerin hıznının artırılması
- testlerin kapsamının artırılması
- testlerin doğruluğunun artırılması
- testlerin raporlama kalitesinin artırılmasıdır.
Test otomasyonu doğru araç seçimi yapılmaması, ya da test otomasyonunu bilen uzman bir ekip tarafından yapılmaması durumunda faydadan çok zarar getirmektedir.
EMEA bölgesindeki lider yazılım test firması olan Keytorc’un test otomasyon ekibiyle iletişime geçmek için: www.keytorc.com ya da blogs.keytorc.com
Katalon Studio - A Codeless Automation Tool.pdfKnoldus Inc.
In this session, we are going to discuss how can we go codeless for test designing and test execution. An insight into one of the popular codeless automation tools - Katalon Studio.
Software testing concepts is going to enhance from manual testing to automated testing. Due to rapidly increasing complexity in software development process, the present manual testing technique is not sufficient for effective testing. Hence, here arises the requirement of test automation process. The automation testing is the software testing process in which the tester use advance automation tools for testing software applications areas, which needs to be tested again-and-again due to frequent changes.
There is no doubt about the importance of automated frameworks in the Agile environment and as part of the day-to-day testing process. These are some insights to guide any automation project.
From http://wiki.directi.com/x/AgAa - This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing
Test Automation Best Practices (with SOA test approach)Leonard Fingerman
Today we hear a lot of buzz about the latest & greatest test automation tools like Selenium, Rational Functional Tester or HP LoadRunner but to make your test automation effort successful it might take more than just having the right tool. This presentation will try to uncover major pitfalls typically involved with test automation efforts. It will provide guidance on successful strategy as well as differences among third-generation frameworks like keyword-driven, data-driven and hybrid. It will also cover various aspects of SOA test automation
What are the Key drivers for automation? What are the Challenges in Agile automation and How to deal with them? How to automate? Who will automate? Which tool to select? Commercial or open source? What to automate? Which features? Here is what our experience says
Building a Test Automation Strategy for SuccessLee Barnes
Choosing an appropriate tool and building the right framework are typically thought of as the main challenges in implementing successful test automation. However, long term success requires that other key questions must be answered including:
- What are our objectives?
- How should we be organized?
- Will our processes need to change?
- Will our test environment support test automation?
- What skills will we need?
- How and when should we implement?
In this workshop, Lee will discuss how to assess your test automation readiness and build a strategy for long term success. You will interactively walk through the assessment process and build a test automation strategy based on input from the group. Attend this workshop and you will take away a blue print and best practices for building an effective test automation strategy in your organization.
• Understand the key aspects of a successful test automation function
• Learn how to assess your test automation readiness
• Develop a test automation strategy specific to your organization
This is my complete introductory course for Software Test Automation.If you need full training that includes different automation tools (Selenium, J-Meter, Burp, SOAP UI etc), feel free to contact me by email (amraldo@hotmail.com) or by mobile (+201223600207).
Let's explore what is agile testing, how agile testing is different than traditional testing. What practices team has to adopt to have parallel testing and how to create your own test automation framework. Test automation frameworks using cucumber, selenium, junit, nunit, rspec, coded UI etc.
From http://wiki.directi.com/x/AgAa - This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing
Test Automation
Test automation is the use of test automation software like Selenium or self-developed testware to execute test cases.
Test automation is mostly used to automate repetitive testing tasks in a formalized way. It is also used to execute tests that would be difficult to perform manually like performance testing.
There are many advantages of test automation that are mostly related to the repeatability of the tests and the speed of test execution. There are a lot of commercial and open source tools available which can be grouped into two main categories; Code-Driven and Graphical User Interface Testing. Thus the key success factor in test automation is selecting the right tool and have a specialized test automation team.
It is to use test automation tools by considering ROI (return on investment). Otherwise it is quite easy to waste big amount of energy, commitment and definitely money.
With more than 500 clients, Keytorc is the leading software testing company in EMEA region that have competencies of automating any kind of software in diverse industries.
For more information about test automation tools and Keytorc’s test automation service you can contact with our performance test engineers: www.keytorc.com or blogs.keytorc.com
Test Otomasyonu:
Test otomasyonu özellikle tekrarlayan ve manuel olarak yapılması zor olan testlerin Selenium gibi test otomasyon araçları kullanılarak ya da özel olarak geliştirilen test otomasyon scriptleri ile yapılmasıdır. Bu bakımdan:
- Regresyon testleri
- Performans testleri
- Yük ve Stres testleri
- Test yönetimi
test otomasyonuna en uygun test tipleri ve aktiviteleridir.
Test otomasyonunun en büyük faydaları:
- testlerin hıznının artırılması
- testlerin kapsamının artırılması
- testlerin doğruluğunun artırılması
- testlerin raporlama kalitesinin artırılmasıdır.
Test otomasyonu doğru araç seçimi yapılmaması, ya da test otomasyonunu bilen uzman bir ekip tarafından yapılmaması durumunda faydadan çok zarar getirmektedir.
EMEA bölgesindeki lider yazılım test firması olan Keytorc’un test otomasyon ekibiyle iletişime geçmek için: www.keytorc.com ya da blogs.keytorc.com
Katalon Studio - A Codeless Automation Tool.pdfKnoldus Inc.
In this session, we are going to discuss how can we go codeless for test designing and test execution. An insight into one of the popular codeless automation tools - Katalon Studio.
Software testing concepts is going to enhance from manual testing to automated testing. Due to rapidly increasing complexity in software development process, the present manual testing technique is not sufficient for effective testing. Hence, here arises the requirement of test automation process. The automation testing is the software testing process in which the tester use advance automation tools for testing software applications areas, which needs to be tested again-and-again due to frequent changes.
There is no doubt about the importance of automated frameworks in the Agile environment and as part of the day-to-day testing process. These are some insights to guide any automation project.
From http://wiki.directi.com/x/AgAa - This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing
Test Automation Best Practices (with SOA test approach)Leonard Fingerman
Today we hear a lot of buzz about the latest & greatest test automation tools like Selenium, Rational Functional Tester or HP LoadRunner but to make your test automation effort successful it might take more than just having the right tool. This presentation will try to uncover major pitfalls typically involved with test automation efforts. It will provide guidance on successful strategy as well as differences among third-generation frameworks like keyword-driven, data-driven and hybrid. It will also cover various aspects of SOA test automation
What are the Key drivers for automation? What are the Challenges in Agile automation and How to deal with them? How to automate? Who will automate? Which tool to select? Commercial or open source? What to automate? Which features? Here is what our experience says
Improving ROI with Scriptless Test AutomationMindfire LLC
This is where scriptless test automation comes into the picture. Businesses today may utilize Scriptless Test Automation to automate test cases without having to worry about the complexities of coding. It speeds up the time to learn and build code, resulting in a shorter time to market, a greater return on investment, and increased coverage with little maintenance.
Why Automation Fails—in Theory and PracticeTechWell
Testers face common challenges in automation. Unfortunately, these challenges often lead to subsequent failures. Jim Trentadue explains a variety of automation perceptions and myths―the perception that a significant increase in time and people is needed to implement automation; the myth that, once automation is achieved, testers will not be needed; the myth that scripted automation will serve all the testing needs for an application; the perception that developers and testers can add automation to a project without additional time, resources, or training; the belief that anyone can implement automation. The testing organization must ramp up quickly on the test automation process and the prep-work analysis that needs to be done including when to start, how to structure the tests, and what system to start with. Learn how to respond to these common challenges by developing a solid business case for increased automation adoption by engaging manual testers in the testing organization, being technology agnostic, and stabilizing test scripts regardless of applications changes.
Why and When to Use Automation in Software TestingV2Soft
Automation in software testing is becoming increasingly popular due to its ability to reduce costs, improve accuracy and efficiency, and allow for faster delivery of products. Automated testing can help developers identify bugs early in the development cycle, leading to fewer errors and better-quality software. Automation also reduces the need for manual testing, freeing up resources that can be used elsewhere. By automating specific tasks, testers can focus on more complex tasks that require human judgement and experience. Ultimately, automation helps reduce time-to-market while improving the quality of the product.
Challenges in automation which testers face often lead to subsequent failures. Learn how to respond to these common challenges by developing a solid business case for increased automation adoption by engaging manual testers in the testing organization, being technology agnostic, and stabilizing test scripts regardless of applications changes.
Benefits of using native automation tooling for mobile application testing.pptxMesut Günes
Regarding the automation of mobile applications, we have two kinds of choices. The first
is going with native automation frameworks such as Espresso for Android and XTCUITest for iOS applications, or going with non-native tools such as Selenium-based tooling (Appium, Selendroid, Robot Framework, many others), Calabash or also many other paid frameworks.
I want to clarify the differences between native and non-native toolings for mobile UI automation. Both tooling ecosystems have advantages and disadvantages, so people are confused about which is best for them.
Non-native tools such as Appium that dominated mobile automation for a long time and people have gained a lot of experiences with it so they want to continue using Appium, also Calabash which is older than Appium and it was also very popular for some time. On the other hand, these tools always need to deal with the latest update coming from the latest versions of the Android and the iOS ecosystem. If not those tools would be in history. For example, Calabash almost became useless for the latest versions after Microsoft acquired it and they stopped supporting it.
It shortly stands for tests and operations. Within the DevOps culture, it is a sub-discipline DevOps. There are two approaches to TestOps, these are related to the test approach that you are applying the overall test approach. Mainly if you are applying `shift-left testing` then the TestOps should be adopted to have more collaboration with the development team, `TestOps shift-right`. On the other hand, if you are applying `shift-right testing` then the TestOps should be adopted to have more collaboration with the operation team, this can be called `TestOps shift-left`.
See video for this in Turkish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkIzVwyEgb0
Exploring the best method of forecasting for short term electrical energy demandMesut Günes
This study includes applications of forecasting models established on the data that contain the electrical power consumption of a specific region which are observed hourly. At the beginning of the research, basic information about the electrical power system and the forecasting methods are given and the situation is clarified. Trakya region in Turkey which is in European side of Turkey is selected as the target region. The data is composed of hourly observed electrical energy values for the whole year of 2005 and some months of 2006 and 2007 which is 23 months in total. Because the data is large enough and the aim of the research is to establish accurate forecasting models for short term forecasting, quantitative methods are used. For this region, forecasting methods are improved for the short term electrical energy consumption that is the next 12 hours of the last day of each months and the best fitted model is determined for each months. The best fitted models are applied to the data and the related results are discussed.
Test Mühendisliğine Giriş Eğitimi - Bölüm 1Mesut Günes
ISTQB ve ISEB Foundation level gibi "Test Uzmanlığı" ile ilgili yapılan sınavlara hazırlık olarak tüketilecek dökümandır. Ayrıca yazılım test mühendisliği ile ilgili bilgi edinmek isteyenlerin okuyabileceği Türkçe kaynaktır.
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ISTQB ve ISEB Foundation level gibi "Test Uzmanlığı" ile ilgili yapılan sınavlara hazırlık olarak tüketilecek dökümandır. Ayrıca yazılım test mühendisliği ile ilgili bilgi edinmek isteyenlerin okuyabileceği Türkçe kaynaktır.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Mission to Decommission: Importance of Decommissioning Products to Increase E...
Test automation methodologies
1. Test Automation
What is test automation
Test automation is an activity that aims to test the most frequently used and least frequently
changed parts of an application automatically. This can be done by test automation tools by the help
of programming languages supported. Therefore, related test cases are written as a piece of code.
Thought test automation activity is criticized under testing activity, it is a software development
activity. Every change in the application should be reflected to the test automation scripts so, even
the cleverest test scripts are produced, and maintenance activity comes out as problem of test
automation since the application is a live object.
Test automation has an important role in software quality assurance. Because the needs of
the sector and trend towards to test automation is getting high, there are a large number of test
automation tools exist in the market, but the most famous tools can be listed as follows and more
can be found in the list below :
• QTP: Supported by HP, originally develop by Mercury and imported by HP. It has
many features, easily record and replay, fast and easily development, short learning
curve and powerful support by HP, however for only Windows and costly license
price.
• IBM Rational Robot: Developed by IBM, short learning curve for testing team and
gives options for more sophisticated scripts for test automation engineer, supports
most of the UI platforms, however for only Windows and costly license price.
• Selenium: Open source UI test automation framework, best of the selenium is that
you can write test cases with your favorite language for webpage testing. Although
Selenium is a Firefox plug-in, it can be used for any web browsers. There are lots of
blogs, websites and forum to gather help about new features.
2. Important points for test automation
Test automation is a live object this means that every change made for the item in the scope
of test automation should affect the test automation scripts. Keeping updated the scripts is crucial.
Therefore, test automation should be started after the test cases are mature and should be apply to
suitable test cases for test automation. This can reduce reworks and unnecessary scripting efforts.
Automation scripts should not cause a fail in the system since the aim of the test is to find
defects in the software in such a case finding the root of a failure is not feasible. Also in such
condition which the automation scripts find a bug or error, it should recover itself then reports the
issue and never stops until the full scripts runs. This can be explain by “transition handling” which
means that test automation is composed of many separate test cases and these test cases run in a
desired/fixed order one by one. Every test case starts then performs its job and then ends then the
following test case does its job but the starting and the end points for all the test cases are the same.
When a failure is catch the test case doesn’t do its job but goes to the end point which is the starting
point of the following test case. This can be illustrated by flower leaf model as shown below:
Another import point is that spending effort for the automation is beneficial or not. The idea
behind the automation is to perform many things on terminals without using human efforts instead
the human can perform test analysts or other test activities. However maintenance effort should be
eliminated because as we said automation is a live object. There should take a statistical study on the
aim of the automation and the gains after a successful automation is applied to the project. This is
named as automation’s return of investment (ROI), a ration of benefits to cost. A mathematical
3. formula can be written as and more about the calculation of ROI can be found here
http://www.dijohn-ic.com/test_automation_roi.pdf:
ROI should be greater than 100% otherwise test automation is not better than manual test
execution. ROI is calculated for only one execution of the test set but the idea on the automation is
reusing it for every iteration so if you have a frequently release candidate, you have to test your
application before release this means that you should run the automation more than one. If you run
the automation for 3 times effective ROI can be written as:
Graph shows the ROI with execution times:
What are the test automation methodologies
Since an aim to automate everything for every condition is a utopia, focusing on an
applicable automation target should be more realistic. It can be described by SMART which stands
for test automation should be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. For example,
40% of regression test cases with previously defined 10 users on 3 popular web browsers for an e-
commerce firm could be applicable test automation strategy. After you have decided a strategy, you
can apply a test methodology to practice your test automation. Test methodologies can be described
as follows:
• Record and Replay:
o Records every steps to create a test case
o Easily replay the existing test case
o It doesn’t have loop or if condition or other complicated features
• Functional Test Automation:
4. o Every test case is automated by a different test scripts
o Test scripts include test data
o No import/export data option
• Data-Driven Test Automation:
o In addition to functional test automation
o Test scripts can run by different data
o Data can be stored/read from an external storage/file
o Only data-sets are updated not the scripts
• Keyword-Driven Test Automation:
o Every case named by a keyword
o The important keywords are sequentially run as a separate test cases
o New test cases can be easily created not need a programming knowledge
o Data and scripts are separately located
o Error handling and Transition handling are difficult
o Creating complex test cases is difficult job
• Hybrid Test Automation:
o Combination of keyword-driven and data-driven automation techniques
o Exception handling and transition handling mechanism can be used
o Desired data can be used for different test cases
o Data and scripts are separately located
Example for keyword-driven testing, important keywords are sequentially run as separate test case
sets. Sample keywords:
open the the webpage named as open;
login the user information named as login;
check the product;
add to basket;
checkout the basket;
logout from the webpage;
close the browser;
Belonging to the keywords above some test case sets may be written as “open + login + logout”,
“open + login + check + logout” and so on.
Mesut Güneş – 22.02.2013
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