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Thinksoft Automation framework

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• 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.

Testing Efficiency

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• Include details of what makes knowledge capture hard and how Thinksoft has gone about collecting a repository of specialized application testing knowledge

Key challenge: Knowledge Capture

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• Discuss how you could improve your own knowledge capture process– What are the barriers?• Funding-wise• Culture-wise• Technology-wise

Discussion Point

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• 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”?

Key challenge: Re-usability

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• How could your existing knowledge be made more reusable?– What changes are needed in:• Structuring captured knowledge• Training people• Making knowledge discoverable

Discussion point

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• 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

Key challenge: Efficiency

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• 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?

Discussion Point

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• 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?

Test Automation Frameworks

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Structured approach: Manual test scripts to

automation

Centralized test execution and

reporting

Reuse of framework / components across

projects

Easy to maintain, enhance and reuse

Key Drivers

Test Management: Easy to use front end

application

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About Thinksoft Automation Framework 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

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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

Focus on Maintenance

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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

ARTEMIS – Enablers / Differentiators

• Framework can be integrated with mobile testing tools

• Combined test results for both mobile and desktop application test execution

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• 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

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• 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

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