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2. Setting the Context • What we mean by “automated testing” • Other types of tool-assisted testing • Principles will apply to other types • Many topics deserve more attention • Automated testing is software development

3. What Typically Goes Wrong • Create automated tests that don’t run anymore • Spending too much time babysitting and maintaining the automation • Automated tests are too brittle • Tools don’t work in environment • Automated tests not providing value

4. Common Mistakes • No plan for implementation • No buy-in from staff or management • No training for automators • No time allotted to automate • No time allotted for maintenance • No framework for reusability • Good intentions, poor execution

5. Why Automate? • Sounds cool • Boss said so • Can’t keep up • Lots of repetitive tests • Lots of data driven tests • Reduce time spent on regression testing

6. Develop an Automation Plan • Why you will automate • What to automate • When to automate • Who will automate, execute, maintain • How to automate – Framework • How to report results • Where to run tests

7. What to automate • Smoke tests • Repetitive tests • Can run autonomously • Big risks • Take less time to automate than execute • Should run 3-5 times without changing • Data intensive tests

8. When to automate • When you’re ready • Depends on development lifecycle • Waterfall – may wait until the end • Agile – may need continuous automation • Not too early, not too late • Need stable-ish UI • Before you have to regression test • Plan time for automation and maintenance • Manage as part of regression testing time

9. Selecting the Right Tool • Define your tool requirements • What you need it to do • Compatibility with your application • Compatibility with your skillsets • Try it out • Beware of the hype • “Record and Playback” rarely is that simple

10. Open Source Tools • Free to acquire, not to use • More time required for implementation • Installation and configuration • Learning to use the product • More technical skills required • http://opensourcetesting.org

11. Develop a Framework • Organization of artifacts • Aim for reusability • Across features, product versions, and products • Separate interface from functionality • Dealing with common activities • Object recognition • Navigation • Data validation

12. Dealing with Change • Plan for changes in UI • How to respond to test failures • Flexible object recognition • Make tests data independent • Reduce dependencies between tests • Set up test data in cleanup scripts • Script tests to use dynamic data • Enlist help of developers to ease automation

13. Automation Assessment

14. Objective Background Objective • Automation Assessment Approach • Process • Infrastructure • Tools • Framework • Operating Model • Best Practices

15. Assessment Scope • Automation Prioritization • Planning & Strategy • Approach • Estimation Model • Documents • Guidelines • Review procedures & Checklists • Metrics Collection • Configuration management • Audits/Assessments • Change Management • Environment management Process • Defect management • Maintenance Approach • Environment Management • Test bed creation and maintenance • Architecture & Type • Test Data Management • Reporting Mechanism • Error & Exception • Handling • Folder Structure • Scalability • Reusability • Function Library • Object Repository • Database Testing • Batch Execution Infrastructure Framework Focus Areas Process Best Practices Tools • Scripting Standards • User Guides • Maintenance Process Handbook • Dynamic Script Allocation • Automation Review Tool • KR portal • Integration of automation • scripts to test management tools Operating Model • Roles & Responsibility • Governance Model • Organizational SLAs • Project structuring • Communication • Functional Automation • Test Management • Configuration Management • Defect Management • License Management 15 15

16. Process • Communication and Collaboration – (BA’s, Developer’s, Manual Tester’s, etc) • Identification and Prioritization • Planning and Estimation • Change Management • Maintenance Approach

17. Tools • Functional Automation • Test Management • Configuration Management • Defect Management • Open Source

18. Framework • Architecture and Type • Test Data Management • Reporting Mechanism • Reusability • Maintainability • Object Repository • Database Testing

19. Infrastructure • Environment Management • Test Bed creation and management

20. Best Practices • Scripting Standards • User Guides • Maintenance Process Handbook • Automation Review Tool • KR portal

21. Operating Model • Roles and Responsibilities • Organizations SLA’s • Project Structuring

22. Approach - Highlights Focus Areas Highlights Definition of automation framework Customized metrics framework Define governance model Benefits Structured methodology automation testing Well defined Organization structure and Governance model in place Consolidation of automation tool Assess current automation capabilities Fully customized metrics framework for implementation across application Identify the ideal automation tool Set up communication model and status reporting Defined communication and workload processes for onsite - offshore co-ordination Use of reusable automation scripts Well defined independent and peer review procedures in place

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24. Value Adds CRAFT defines the method for scripting of business functionalities as reusable libraries that are repetitive among test cases CRAFT CRAFT 2.0 is a tool which streamlines the test execution activity during test automation, it dynamically executes the test cases in multiple machines in a distributed environment Bulk uploads QTP scripts, attachments and folder structure to Quality Center CRAFT 2.0 AHEAD WS Test Professional DataXpress SOA testing solutions to test business logic. It enables client to execute data-driven web service testing without any programming knowledge DataXpress is a automated test generation tool which enables to streamline the test data preparation activity

25. Value Adds Return on investment details to have maximum transparency to client before an automation engagement. ROI Calculator It is an automation functional test tool developed for web automation It integrates and synchronizes the defects management module of Quality Center with that of Bugzilla. Selenium test manager QC2bugzilla Win2Pro Watir Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR) is an open source function testing framework to test any web application built on ASP, .NET, J2EE or PHP Converts Winrunner scripts to QTP automatically

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