Designing a Test Automation Framework By Quontra solutions

This document discusses key factors for ensuring the success of a test automation framework (TAF). It outlines various elements that should be considered when setting up a TAF, including supporting different application types like web, mobile, and APIs. Important TAF features that are described include being keyword/data-driven, handling test flows and errors, and generating execution and historical reports. The document also provides recommendations for integrating the TAF with continuous integration systems for scheduling tests, notifications, load balancing and distributed execution to save time.

Key Concepts: The structure of a Test Framework, its components, and the process to create one will be presented. A Test Framework provides a means to automate tests fast and guarantee their extended existence. It makes the automation process straightforward and systematic, simplifies the error debugging procedures, makes the testware tolerant to all kinds of object changes and reliable in an unstable test environment. The presentation is not an illustration of a specific test framework implementation, but rather a description of the features that should be mandatory attributes of any test framework. Learning Objectives: How to present the testware internally as a hierarchy of test sets (structural level), use cases (functional - scenario level), test cases (the scenario steps with verification), test actions (the interface "action" words). How to present the testware externally as a set of configuration files, scripts, libraries.How to separate the business action words from the interface action words and the respective drivers.How to create debug logs that allow to identify the source of a failure in minutes.

The document discusses guidelines for automation testing scripting. It recommends planning scripts, using proper methodology and techniques, and designing scripts for reusability, modularity and validation. The key points are: 1) Effective scripting follows guidelines for planning, design and validation. Planning improves scripts' goals and approach. 2) Design utilizes modular, reusable structures and templates for visibility, scalability and maintenance. 3) Validation ensures consistency, quality, customization and reviews to verify proper script functionality.

The client faced challenges with regression testing Oracle Applications due to constant upgrades. Infosys created an automation framework that enabled the client to reduce regression testing efforts and costs by 80% and minimize business interruptions. The framework included documenting test cases, developing automated scripts using testing tools, executing the scripts across multiple releases, and managing tests. This improved cost savings, delivery confidence, maintainability, and resource utilization.

The document discusses test automation frameworks and the page object model pattern. It recommends treating automated testing as software development with principles like separation of concerns. The page object model pattern models pages as objects and allows tests to interact with pages through page object classes. Data driven testing is also discussed where test data is stored externally in spreadsheets or databases and passed into tests.

Automation testing involves automating manual testing processes using software tools to execute test scripts and compare expected and actual results. There are different types of automation frameworks including data-driven, keyword-driven, modular, and hybrid frameworks. Implementing an automation framework involves 10 steps: identifying the testing scope and needs, evaluating tools, designing the framework, developing and populating test data, and configuring schedulers.

Intelligent test automation has become an important subset of the software testing process. It is the key enabler of many advanced deployment and development processes.

Testing frameworks provide an execution environment for automated tests. The main types are modular, data-driven, and keyword-driven frameworks. Modular frameworks organize tests into independent scripts representing application modules. Data-driven frameworks store test data and expected results in external files to reduce code duplication. Keyword-driven frameworks use external files to store test actions and data. Hybrid frameworks combine advantages of the different approaches. While frameworks work with waterfall models, agile methodologies benefit more from test-driven development and behavior-driven development which integrate testing throughout development.

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

The document discusses test automation, including its objectives, benefits, misconceptions, and challenges. It provides a checklist for test automation implementation, covering criteria for choosing an automation tool, defining requirements, designing the architecture, creating test data, implementing coding standards, and maintaining automated tests. The key goals are to understand test automation concepts, what it takes to implement effective automation, and techniques to emphasize maintainability.

For teams developing & maintaining mobile apps for both Android & iOS platforms, functional testing is a huge challenge. With the advent of Agile practices, behavior driven testing has gained more popularity. The current process of updating apps over the air is very easy, raising users’ expectations of new features delivered sooner. Appium has made it easier for teams to test their apps for multiple platforms. However, it alone cannot solve the challenges around implementing behavior driven development & frequent UI/functionality updates. So we created a robust Test Framework combining the best features of Appium, Cucumber-jvm & Page Objects. Cucumber-jvm is a key tool in implementing BDD. Page Objects is a framework design approach for maintaining & accessing components & controls spread across test scenarios. Appium provides a JSON bridge that allows test cases to be written once, and run for multiple mobile platforms. Integrating the powerful features of these 3 tools, we can create a powerful framework that is easy to setup, use, scale and maintain.

This document provides guidelines for effective test automation at IBM Global Services. It discusses that automation is viewed as a silver bullet but can also frustrate if not implemented properly. The document recommends starting simple and increasing complexity as skills grow. It provides considerations for automation, such as tests that are long, repetitive, and non-subjective. The document outlines 10 guidelines for automation, including establishing standards, separating what from how, using a six phase process, and defining required skills. It also discusses functional decomposition and keyword-driven methodologies and provides an overview of automation tools.

Centralized Test Automation using Hybrid Model 1) The document discusses a centralized test automation framework using a hybrid model that incorporates both keyword-driven and data-driven approaches. 2) A key benefit of the hybrid framework is that it allows data-driven scripts to leverage the libraries and utilities of the keyword-driven architecture, making the scripts more compact and less prone to failure. 3) The centralized framework encapsulates components like function libraries and scripts so that users only have access to the scripts relevant to their testing, preventing access to the entire framework.

it is about test automation methodologies which you should know before starting to automate your test cases.

The document discusses developing a test automation strategy and considerations for regression testing, automation, and frameworks. It addresses why regression testing is important, factors for the automation strategy like business needs and ROI, and frameworks to consider like Cucumber, Robot Framework, and Spock. The strategy determines test maintenance and fits within the organization, development process, and technology stacks.

This presentation introduces Test Automation and gives overview of the tasks involved. For more info visit blog.rockoder.com

The document outlines the framework and process for automating testing of an Oracle Identity Management application. It includes sections on the execution approach, framework types, the Test Complete automation tool used, application under test details, framework implementation including GUI design, expected vs. actual result comparison, and report generation. The framework implementation is demonstrated through examples for user identity verification and account provisioning test cases.

The document discusses test automation, including introducing automation, tools, frameworks, and strategies. It describes different types of frameworks like test script modularity, library architecture, keyword-driven, and data-driven testing. Critical factors for automation success are having management support, a robust framework, test process ownership, and skilled professionals. Risks include changes impacting scripts and lack of automation knowledge.

In software testing, web and mobile automation testing has become indispensable. Over the past decade, organizations across industries have increasingly relied on test automation to efficiently handle the diverse array of devices, platforms, browsers, and screen resolutions encountered in their testing endeavors.

This document discusses best practices for developing an automated testing framework. It recommends using a hybrid keyword-driven and data-driven approach to reduce scripting efforts. Some key points covered include the benefits of automation like reduced costs and increased speed/accuracy over manual testing. It also discusses factors to consider when selecting an automation tool, common challenges, and provides an example case study showing the ROI achieved through automation. Best practices emphasized include loose coupling of framework components, reuse of generic libraries, and treating framework development as a distinct project.

This white paper discusses test automation frameworks and provides guidance on choosing the right framework. It defines test automation framework and differentiates it from test harness. It describes the test process lifecycle of authoring, execution, and reporting for both manual and automated testing. The paper outlines different types of frameworks like keyword-driven, data-driven, model-based, and hybrid and discusses their relative complexities. It provides examples of two frameworks used at the author's organization. The goal is to help readers understand frameworks and strategic considerations for migrating to automation.