TMF2014 Thinksoft Automation Presentation
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TMF2014 Thinksoft Automation Presentation
- 1. Disclaimer: All names, logos are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Trademarks of other third parties used in this document are the property of their respective owners only. No explicit/implicit warranties are made by Thinksoft on any performance. (© Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft.) Thinksoft Automation framework
- 2. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • Ask audience to workshop for 5 mins on what are the key inefficiencies they experience in testing – Looking for issues around the inefficiency of repeated manual regression testing, and the need to constantly update or re-do very similar test case design work for different versions of products etc. 2 Testing Efficiency
- 3. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • Include details of what makes knowledge capture hard and how Thinksoft has gone about collecting a repository of specialized application testing knowledge 3 Key challenge: Knowledge Capture
- 4. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • Discuss how you could improve your own knowledge capture process – What are the barriers? • Funding-wise • Culture-wise • Technology-wise 4 Discussion Point
- 5. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • Show how Thinksoft has made their captured knowledge re-usable in different situations – Having a narrow but deep focus has been a key approach – How do you overcome each customer being “unique”? 5 Key challenge: Re-usability
- 6. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • How could your existing knowledge be made more reusable? – What changes are needed in: • Structuring captured knowledge • Training people • Making knowledge discoverable 6 Discussion point
- 7. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • How to re-use captured knowledge efficiently? – Test Automation… BUT • There are lots of challenges: – Maintenance costs are too high – Skills are too rare – Systems and interfaces change too much 7 Key challenge: Efficiency
- 8. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • Has test automation been used successfully in your organization – If yes – what makes it work? – If no – what made it fail, and at what point did it fail? 8 Discussion Point
- 9. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • The concept of Test Automation Frameworks has been around for a long time • Test Automation still only achieves about 20% coverage on average • Yet we’ve achieved XX% across all of our projects • What’s new and different about how we’re approaching Test Automation? 9 Test Automation Frameworks
- 10. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft 10 TAF (ARTEMIS) Structured approach: Manual test scripts to automation Centralized test execution and reporting Reuse of framework / components across projects Easy to maintain, enhance and reuse Test Management: Easy to use front end application
- 11. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft 11 A domain centric keyword based framework designed to be maintained by business users with little or no help from technical teams. Works for both desktop and mobile application Ensures the focus is on easy maintenance of the automation pack by end users Centralized repository that can be accessed by both manual and automation test teams Customizable reports in different formats Easy to audit pass and defect logs Seamless integration with test management tools
- 12. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft 12 Test Data / Keywords Test Results Any New Manual Test Script can be automated using the same automation engine and changing the Input data and Object Repository Software Testers and BA / Functional Subject Matter Experts can directly review the scripts without any technical knowledge Automation Engine - Reusable Scripts which executes the test based on the Inputs Object Repository
- 13. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft 13 Centralized front end • Centralized front end system which can be used for • Test Planning and Execution • Run Plan setup • Test reports in PDF, excel formats • Automation tool setup options Data Entry module / Reusable Test database • New Script creation • Existing Script enhancements • Test data creation & modification • Easy to use test script maintenance • Reusable test database structure • Can be used as test repository Support for Mobile Test Automation • Framework can be integrated with mobile testing tools • Combined test results for both mobile and desktop application test execution
- 14. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft 1 5 6 2 Establish connection between Automation & Test management tool 1 2 Loading of resources from Test management tool to Automation tool 3 Execute Test Scripts using Automation scripts 4 Invoke relevant Application/device Under Test Update Test Execution Status based on Automated Execution 6 Automatic Logging of Defects & status based on actual results 5 4 Release& Requirement Management Test Management Defect&Status Reporting Test Management 2 iOS Windows 8 Blackberry Others Symbian AUT in different Mobile OS HP QTP Test Complete Selenium Automation Test Tools Web Based Application Under Test Thick Client Mainframe Middleware Web Services Components of Automation Framework Test Automation 3 4 Script Capture with single OS Android External provider - Offshore Mobile Infrastructure Mobile Technology
- 15. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • Include details of: – How automation efficiency is being measured? – How business / IT processes need to be set up to make automation sustainable over the long term? • Make the point that setting up the business case and business process (including metrics) for making testing sustainable will also address automation sustainability in general Staying the course: Automation ROI
- 16. RESTRICTED © Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft • Regardless of whether you currently have test automation in place or not, discuss what business and IT process changes you can begin to make which – Improve you ability to capture and reuse knowledge – Measure the efficiency of your testing process – Fund efficient testing sustainably Discussion Point
- 17. Disclaimer: All names, logos are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Trademarks of other third parties used in this document are the property of their respective owners only. No explicit/implicit warranties are made by Thinksoft on any performance. (© Thinksoft Global: This is Thinksoft proprietary and can not be copied or shared out side the intended purpose without explicit written permission of Thinksoft.) Thank you