Test automation can provide significant benefits but also requires proper understanding and implementation. Some common myths include that automation is simple or that commercial tools are too expensive. In reality, automation requires software development skills and commercial tools have benefits and are relatively inexpensive compared to development costs. An effective test automation framework like keyword-driven testing can further improve returns by reducing maintenance costs and allowing testers without programming knowledge to automate tests. Case studies show frameworks can complete projects faster and with better results.
Test Automation - Everything You Need To KnowBugRaptors
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Test Automation - Everything You Need To KnowBugRaptors
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Talk about the various scripting techniques used to write automation test scripts. 1. Linear scripts. 2. Structured scripts. 3. Shared scripts. 4. Data-Driven scripts. 5. Keyword-Driven scripts.
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
7 Deadly Sins of Agile Software Test AutomationAdrian Smith
Automated software testing is a key enabler for teams wanting to build high quality software that can be progressively enhanced and continuously released. To ensure development practices are sustainable, automated testing must be treated as a first-class citizen and not all approaches are created equal. Some approaches can accumulate technical debt, cause duplication of effort and even team dysfunctions.
The seven deadly sins of automated software testing are a set of common anti-patterns that have been found to erode the value of automated testing resulting in long term maintenance issues and ultimately affecting the ability of development teams to respond to change and continuously deliver.
Taking the classic seven sins (Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Envy, Rage, Pride, Greed) as they might be applied to test automation we will discuss how to identify each automated sin and more importantly provide guidance on recommended solutions and how to avoid them in the first place.
6 Traits of a Successful Test Automation ArchitectureErdem YILDIRIM
The sector demands that software development life cycle to be delivered faster and cheaper with increasing quality and reliability. TLC (testing life cycle) is a crucuel part of the time, cost and quality level for AUT (Application Under Test). Market got to point that all long ornate talks can be summed up in one word: EFFICIENCY. In quality aspect, automating testing activities had already been came forward to reduce development cycle times, cost, resources allocated with traditional test along past years. It's OK that automation increased the efficiency of the test process, so what about the efficiency of automation itself? Why most of the test automation projects fail (even if you're not aware of it is actually failing)? Because, automating without good test architecture may result in a lot of activity, but little value (if you are lucky). We will talk about following 6 main traits to build a successful test automation architecture; selection/implementation of test levels to be automated, design principles/patterns, locater strategy, tools / framework selection (aside from SeWD / Java), methodology (E2E Testing, TDD, BDD, Continuous Testing) and OOP pillars.
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
Ruud van Houwelingen - What Next for MBT? Implementing with Tools TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2009 presentation on What Next for MBT? Implementing with Tools by Ruud van Houwelingen. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
As one of the biggest multinational companies in the worldwide video game industry since 1999, Gameloft records around 2.8 million new games downloaded every day, distributed in over 100 countries. We will see how the Quality Assurance (QA) department manages to ensure the best quality standard for all those mobile applications. After mentioning what software and video game have in common, the speech will focus on video game main testing challenges with their actual solutions (performance, optimization, automation). It will also deal about the testing techniques used for the in-game ads currently growing fast on the market.
A brief introduction to test automation covering different automation approaches, when to automate and by whom, commercial vs. open source tools, testability, and so on.
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
It Seemed a Good Idea at the Time: Intelligent Mistakes in Test AutomationTechWell
Some test automation ideas seem very sensible at first glance but contain pitfalls and problems that can and should be avoided. Dot Graham describes five of these “intelligent mistakes”—1. Automated tests will find more bugs quicker. (Automation doesn’t find bugs, tests do.) 2. Spending a lot on a tool must guarantee great benefits. (Good automation does not come “out of the box” and is not automatic.) 3. Let’s automate all of our manual tests. (This may not give you better or faster testing, and you will miss out on some benefits.) 4. Tools are expensive so we have to show a return on investment. (This is not only surprisingly difficult but may actually be harmful.) 5. Because they are called “testing tools,” they must be tools for testers to use. (Making testers become test automators may be damaging to both testing and automation.) Join Dot for a rousing discussion of “intelligent mistakes”—so you can be smart enough to avoid them.
Why Shouldn’t Weekly Status Reports Be Ignored?QATestLab
Those, who are involved in web site testing, desktop testing and mobile application testing, know that these activities assume writing many different reports besides error reports.
(by QATestLab)
Talk about the various scripting techniques used to write automation test scripts. 1. Linear scripts. 2. Structured scripts. 3. Shared scripts. 4. Data-Driven scripts. 5. Keyword-Driven scripts.
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
7 Deadly Sins of Agile Software Test AutomationAdrian Smith
Automated software testing is a key enabler for teams wanting to build high quality software that can be progressively enhanced and continuously released. To ensure development practices are sustainable, automated testing must be treated as a first-class citizen and not all approaches are created equal. Some approaches can accumulate technical debt, cause duplication of effort and even team dysfunctions.
The seven deadly sins of automated software testing are a set of common anti-patterns that have been found to erode the value of automated testing resulting in long term maintenance issues and ultimately affecting the ability of development teams to respond to change and continuously deliver.
Taking the classic seven sins (Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Envy, Rage, Pride, Greed) as they might be applied to test automation we will discuss how to identify each automated sin and more importantly provide guidance on recommended solutions and how to avoid them in the first place.
6 Traits of a Successful Test Automation ArchitectureErdem YILDIRIM
The sector demands that software development life cycle to be delivered faster and cheaper with increasing quality and reliability. TLC (testing life cycle) is a crucuel part of the time, cost and quality level for AUT (Application Under Test). Market got to point that all long ornate talks can be summed up in one word: EFFICIENCY. In quality aspect, automating testing activities had already been came forward to reduce development cycle times, cost, resources allocated with traditional test along past years. It's OK that automation increased the efficiency of the test process, so what about the efficiency of automation itself? Why most of the test automation projects fail (even if you're not aware of it is actually failing)? Because, automating without good test architecture may result in a lot of activity, but little value (if you are lucky). We will talk about following 6 main traits to build a successful test automation architecture; selection/implementation of test levels to be automated, design principles/patterns, locater strategy, tools / framework selection (aside from SeWD / Java), methodology (E2E Testing, TDD, BDD, Continuous Testing) and OOP pillars.
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
Ruud van Houwelingen - What Next for MBT? Implementing with Tools TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2009 presentation on What Next for MBT? Implementing with Tools by Ruud van Houwelingen. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
As one of the biggest multinational companies in the worldwide video game industry since 1999, Gameloft records around 2.8 million new games downloaded every day, distributed in over 100 countries. We will see how the Quality Assurance (QA) department manages to ensure the best quality standard for all those mobile applications. After mentioning what software and video game have in common, the speech will focus on video game main testing challenges with their actual solutions (performance, optimization, automation). It will also deal about the testing techniques used for the in-game ads currently growing fast on the market.
A brief introduction to test automation covering different automation approaches, when to automate and by whom, commercial vs. open source tools, testability, and so on.
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
It Seemed a Good Idea at the Time: Intelligent Mistakes in Test AutomationTechWell
Some test automation ideas seem very sensible at first glance but contain pitfalls and problems that can and should be avoided. Dot Graham describes five of these “intelligent mistakes”—1. Automated tests will find more bugs quicker. (Automation doesn’t find bugs, tests do.) 2. Spending a lot on a tool must guarantee great benefits. (Good automation does not come “out of the box” and is not automatic.) 3. Let’s automate all of our manual tests. (This may not give you better or faster testing, and you will miss out on some benefits.) 4. Tools are expensive so we have to show a return on investment. (This is not only surprisingly difficult but may actually be harmful.) 5. Because they are called “testing tools,” they must be tools for testers to use. (Making testers become test automators may be damaging to both testing and automation.) Join Dot for a rousing discussion of “intelligent mistakes”—so you can be smart enough to avoid them.
Why Shouldn’t Weekly Status Reports Be Ignored?QATestLab
Those, who are involved in web site testing, desktop testing and mobile application testing, know that these activities assume writing many different reports besides error reports.
(by QATestLab)
Performing automated testing, the specialists may use various tools. This may be a set of Selenium or QTP tools (Quick Test Professional).
(by QATestLab)
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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.
Questions for successful test automation projectsDaniel Ionita
Test automation is not only about coding. Successful test automation involves critical thinking and clarity of objectives before actually beginning development. This material provides guidance in putting some of the right questions and how to think as for having an efficient and effective test automation in the context of your project.
In this quality assurance training session, you will learn introduction to automation testing. Topics covered in this course are:
• Introduction
• Why Automated Testing?
• What can I Automate?
• Test Automation Process
• Automation Tool
• Automation Framework
To know more, visit this link: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/quality-assurance/software-testing-quality-assurance-qa-training-with-hands-on-exercises/
In this session you will learn:
Software Testing Tool – Overview
Advantage- Automation
Disadvantage - Automation
Grouping of Automation Tool
Functional Tool
Source Code Testing Tool
Performance Tool
Test Management Tool
Security Testing Tool
For more information: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/quality-assurance/qa-software-testing-training-for-beginners/
In this Quality Assurance Training session, you will learn about Automation Tools Overview. Topic covered in this session are:
• SQL Basic Operators and Function
• Software Testing Tool – Overview
• Advantage- Automation
• Disadvantage - Automation
• Grouping of Automation Tool
• Functional Tool
• Source Code Testing Tool
• Performance Tool
• Test Management Tool
• Security Testing Tool
For more information, about this quality assurance training, visit this link: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/quality-assurance/software-testing-training-with-hands-on-project-on-e-commerce-application/
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Although most testing organizations have some automation, it's usually a subset of their overall testing efforts. Typically the processes have been previously defined, and the automation team must adapt accordingly. The major issue is that test automation work and deliverables do not always fit into a defined manual testing process.
Learn how to transform your manual testing procedures and how to incorporate test automation into your overall testing process.
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4. Myth #1 - Test Automation is
simple, that every tester can do it
■ This myth is promoted by the tool sales people.
They are trying to promote the following test
automation process:
◻ Record the script
◻ Enhance the script by adding functions and data
driving
◻ Run the scripts
◻ Report results
■ Under the influence of this myth the QA
manager can proudly report: All our testers are
developing test automation.
5. Reality - Test automation is a
software development task
■ Automation should be designed, developed and
tested
■ You need to have some kind of a
programming background to implement test
automation. Test Automation is not as complex
as C++/C#/Java development.
■ Test automation standards should be developed
■ Automated test components are assets that
should be treated like application source code
6. Myth #2 – Commercial test tools
are expensive
■ Under the influence of this myth some
companies, especially the small ones:
◻Try to develop their own test automation tools
◻Use scripting languages like Perl and Ruby
◻Use shareware test tools
◻Do not consider test automation at all
7. Reality – Commercial tools are
cheap
■ Per seat license for the most expensive automation tool
is $8K
■ This tool will be used for 5 years.
■ Maintenance/Support fees are 20% of tool cost or
$1,800 per year
■ The cost of this tool is $8K/5+$1,800 = $3,100 per year
■ The automation developer cost with overhead is $100K
per year
■ The cost of this tool is just 3% of the person who uses it,
but productivity gain can be very significant
8. Commercial Tool Benefits:
■ Customer support. Many of the open source tools come and go with
little to no support
■ Most commercial tools are constantly being updated as technologies
change
■ Most commercial tools usually have more functionality (QTP can test
various GUI applications: Web, .Net, Java, VB, C/C++,
PowerBuilder, etc. vs. WATIR – Web only)
■ Commercial tools usually have a large community of users, which
translates into better availability of qualified resources
■ Commercial tools require less advanced programming
■ More test automation frameworks are available for commercial tools
■ Commercial tools are integrated with Test Management tools which
makes reporting and execution much simpler.
9. Over 300 Test Tools are available
(http://www.softwareqatest.com)
■ Load/Performance tools – 54
■ Web Functional/Regression – 60
■ Java Test tools - 48
■ Other Web tools – 76
Which tool is right for you?
11. Dice search results across US (30 days)
Tool Search string Matches
QTP Qtp OR quicktest OR "quick test“ 613
Functional
Tester
"rational robot" OR "functional
tester”
118
SilkTest silktest OR "silk test” 86
TestComplete testcomplete OR "test complete” 26
TestPartner testpartner OR "test partner“ 19
VSTE VSTE AND test 45
WATIR watir 26
Selenium Selenium 108
12.
13. Excerpt from IDC Report:
“Worldwide Automated
Software Quality 2007-2011
Forecast and 2006 Vendor
Shares…”
14.
15. Think of yourself like a business
■ Facts:
◻ Average IT job tenure is about 2 years
◻ Competitive intensity is rising
■ What you should do:
◻ Invest your time/money in learning mainstream
automation
◻ Create a niche for yourself - add Configuration
Management, Performance Testing or Project
Management to your skillset
◻ Market yourself
17. Classic ROI Calculation
ROI = BENEFIT/COST
Automation Cost = Price Of HW + Price of SW + Development Cost +
Maintenance Cost + Execution Cost
Manual Testing Cost = Development Cost + Maintenance Cost +
Execution Cost
ROI = (Manual Testing Cost - Automation Cost)/Automation Cost
Looks right, Doesn’t it?
18. Problems with Classic ROI Calculation
■ You can’t compare Automated Testing
and Manual Testing. They are not the
same and they provide different
information about the AUT.
■ You can’t compare cost of multiple
execution of automated tests vs. manual
tests. You would never dream of
executing that many test cases manually.
19. Automation Real ROI
❑ ROI value IS NOT the value of Automation
vs. Cost of executing these tests manually
❑ Automation ROI value IS the benefit of
this type of testing, and it can be:
❑Reducing Time to Market
❑Increased Test Efficiency (Productivity)
❑Increased Test Effectiveness
20. Reduced Time to Market
■ Can get a greater market share
■ Makes people available to work on
other projects
■ Higher margins, if no competitive
products are currently available
21. Productivity and Effectiveness
■ More testing gets done faster, increasing the odds of
finding defects
■ Defects found early have better chances of being fixed
■ Manual Testers can concentrate on clever ways to
finding defects, instead of typing test inputs and verify
output.
■ About 7% of bug fixes create new bugs, sometimes in
already tested parts of the system. With automation you
can rerun tests for those modules. This almost never
happens when testing is done manually.
22. ROI summary
■ Each project requires different types of
automation - there is often no easy
formula available to calculate ROI
■ Performing ROI calculation can help to
determine upfront what type of
automation, what level of skills, what tools
will be required.
24. Test Automation Framework
■ A Test Automation Framework is a set
of assumptions, concepts and tools that
provide support for Automated Software
Testing.
■ A correctly implemented Test Automation
Framework can further improve ROI by
reducing the development and
maintenance costs.
25. Types of Test Automation
Frameworks
■ Modular
■ Data-Driven
■ Keyword–Driven
■ Model-Based
26. Modular framework
■ The Modular framework is the natural
progression derived from Record-and-Playback
■ The modular framework seeks to minimize
repetition of code by grouping similar actions
into “modules” (e.g.: login)
■ Test Data is in a script or in an internal table
This is what tool sales people are promoting.
27. Data-Driven/Keyword Driven
■ These frameworks are similar in that the
data is separated from the test script
■ The script is just a "driver" or delivery
mechanism for the data.
■ The difference:
◻In keyword-driven testing, the navigation data
and test data are contained in the data source
◻In data-driven testing, only test data is
contained in the data source.
28. Model-Based testing
■ Model-based testing is software testing
in which test cases are derived in whole or
in part from a model that describes some
(usually functional) aspects of the system.
■ Model-based testing for complex software
systems is still an evolving field.
29. We’ll be concentrating on
Keyword-Driven testing since it
is the most beneficial framework
for large-scale test automation.
30. Advantages of Keyword-Driven
Test automation
■ This Framework addresses the most common problem
with test automation:
Automation Engineers do not have domain knowledge
and the End Users (Subject Matter Experts/Test
Engineers) usually do not have automation expertise.
■ When properly implemented and maintained, it presents
a superior ROI because each business event is
designed, automated and maintained as a discrete
entity.
■ Keywords can then be used to design test cases, but the
design and automation overhead for the keyword has
already been paid.
31. Advantages of Keyword-Driven
Test automation
■ Reduced the cost and time spent maintaining
and updating tests
■ The modular structure of keyword-driven testing
means that new tests can easily be created from
pre-existing modules
■ The test team is capable of entirely automating
tests, even without programming knowledge
■ Can be easily modified to use with different test
tool
■ Reusability across different projects
33. Recent Success with Keyword-Driven
approach
■ Estimate using Modular Framework: 1 year
■ Estimate with Keyword-Driven Framework: 6 months
Project was completed in 4 months by 1 person, 2 month
ahead of schedule.
This was the first project for the automation developer
utilizing the Keyword-Driven Framework.
170 components were developed (1 component per Web
page).
109 Regression Test cases were automated.
34. Example of Test Data for Keyword-Driven test
automation developed by Connected Testing Inc.
for TestComplete and QTP
35. Resources
■ “Everything you want to know about Test Automation…” by Brian Le
Suer
■ “Manager’s Guide to GUI Test Automation” by Yury Makedonov
■ “The ROI of Test Automation” by Michael Kelly
■ “What is my ROI?” by mVerify Corporation
■ SQA Forums
■ “An Overview of Test Automation Frameworks” by Nathaniel
Ritmeyer
■ “The benefits of keyword-based software test automation” by David
W. Johnson
■ Wikipedia
36. Gopi QA Head
Company: Connected Testing, Inc.
E-Mail: info@etaclamtechnoservices.com
Phone: +91- 93 92 91 89 89
Website: www.etaclamtechnoservices.com