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The future for Test Automation

The future for Test Automation. Sarah Saltzman EMEA Manager for Quality Test Management Summit January 31 st , 2007. The software testing marketplace. Distributed Automated software Quality marketplace grew 20% in 2005 (IDC)

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The future for Test Automation

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  1. The future for Test Automation Sarah Saltzman EMEA Manager for Quality Test Management Summit January 31st, 2007

  2. The software testing marketplace • Distributed Automated software Quality marketplace grew 20% in 2005 (IDC) • Blurring of focus – Developer testing seen as a growth area, therefore co-ordination of effort will become important (IDC) • Spend in Testing phase of SDLC increasing as a percentage of whole project (Ovum) • Automation tools percieved as under-utilised, 20 – 40% usage model (Ovum) • Test Management – the new de facto tool (was test automation tool) (Ovum)

  3. The software testing marketplace

  4. The software testing marketplace • Drivers • Compliance • Business aligned IT • Process maturity • Complexity of technologies • Productivity improvements • Off-shore investment • Application Security • SOA

  5. Some approaches • Keyword / Data driven testing • Requirements based testing • Risk based testing • Test Frameworks / harnesses using automation tool • Model driven testing, early stages

  6. How are test automation tools used today? • Testers with a development background – automated tool user • Testers with a User background (phased) • Keyword driven testing • manual testing • Automated testing • Not the entire team (why?) • Developers – rarely use them (why?) • Competitor to test automation is manual testing or no testing….

  7. What’s emerging? • Keyword driven testing – the next stage • Model driven testing • Visual testing • Dropping support for older technologies • Traceability • Metrics and measures

  8. What’s missing? • Support for specific frameworks / packages – at a deep technical level? • Root cause analysis? • Easy migration to automation? • Easier script maintenance? • Intelligent test tools? • Integrations with other tools or other vendors? • Testing in development??!! • Support distributed (global) deployments? • Ease of use…… (that old chestnut!!)

  9. For discussion … • ROT –if you run a test more than 3 times, it is worth automation effort… • Who should be automating tests? • What is preventing the wholesale adoption of automated testing tools? • What features would we like to see in the future? • How can we influence the vendors? • How can we take automation to the development teams?

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