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Test Automation

August 17, 2007

© ThoughtWorks, 2007
Objective

– What Test Automation means


– When to Automate & Best practices used
– See how Automation Tools work

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What is Test Automation ?
• A piece of software program written to reproduce
the steps/actions defined in a manual process.

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Why Do we need Test Automation ?

– Speed up testing to accelerate


releases
– Allow testing to happen more
frequently
– Improve test coverage
– Ensure consistency

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Few Examples

1. If I want to create 100 users, which involves


entering 10 different values in a user registration
page, it makes more sense to write a small script
to do this.
2. If I want to execute 10 test cases everyday for
next 3 months, then it makes more sense to write
a small script for this.

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When to Automate a Test ?

• Automate relatively stable functionalities which


require repeated testing.

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Automation Workflow

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Various Automated Testing Tools
used for different Testing Types

• Unit Testing – NUnit, JUnit


• Functional Testing – Sahi, QTP
• Performance Testing – JMeter, Load Runner

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Automation Tool Demo

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Automation Best Practices

– Choose a test tool that best fits the testing


requirements of your organization.
– Only automate those tests that are going to be
repeated.
– Before starting off with Test Automation,
identify the test cases that can be automated.
– Automate the majority of your tests, which are
fairly straightforward.
– Use a data-driven automated testing
methodology.

© ThoughtWorks, 2007
Questions?

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