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Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP

By : Ashish Bhargava
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Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP

By: Ashish Bhargava

Overview of this book

<p>As software testing is maturing, the focus is shifting towards test automation. The key is to learn and grow skills in framework designing and start contributing to project organization goals.</p> <p>Through a helpful mix of conceptual and practical aspects, you will learn everything you need to know related to the implementation of frameworks using QTP. Through simple examples, you will gradually develop the skills needed to execute concepts and code blocks used to design and implement the test automation framework.</p> <p>This tutorial-based guide demonstrates an easy way to implement concepts to create a portable framework across the various versions of QTP. You will learn about the automation lifecycle and gradually develop technical concepts related to each phase. Within a short amount of time, you will be able to deal with challenges in test automation. "Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP" uses a simple, yet elegant approach and gives the reader all the skills and knowledge they need to implement the framework.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Automation Life Cycle and Automation Goals
Index

Chapter 1. Automation Life Cycle and Automation Goals

The test automation tool creates a set of scripts that emulates the user action to be performed on the Application Under Test (AUT) and replays them over and over with minimal or no human intervention. Test automation is a complete process, which goes through distinct phases to automate test cases for applications under the test. The AUT can belong to any technology or domain.

Test automation should start very early in the life cycle of the project and its success depends upon the following:

  • Knowledge of the automation life cycle

  • Processes in test automation

  • Selection of the right tool

  • Test automation planning

  • Appropriate technical know-how about automation and test automation tools

The key driving and guiding forces for successful test automation are the automation goals, best practices, selection criteria, and attributes for tool selection and processes.

Good knowledge in these areas helps implement the test automation in an effective way.