Test Automation

Test Automation Methodology

< class="text-align-justify"p>At Zerone Corporation, there are four steps to our Test Automation Methodology: Planning, Test and Framework Development, Automated Test Execution and Optimization and Maintenance.

Planning

Significant planning is involved in Test Automation to ensure the pertinence of its application. Having clear goals is critical to successful implementation of Test Automation. During the Planning stage, most of our time is allocated to assessing a project's functional scope and fulfilling the necessary knowledge transfer. The project team can prepare for their work once they have a comprehensive understanding of the application business logic and the basic functionality underlying the User Interface. Key requirements for automated testing are fully outlined in the planning stage.

Test and Framework Development

In the Test Development stage, most of our time is spent on automated test description, framework development, test case development, testing and execution. Our goal is to minimize the resources used in general functionality development. The time devoted to test development is dependent on the project size. With larger projects, we divide the active development stage into many shorter stages, delivering interim results along the way.

Automated Test Execution

Our approach to automated test development ensures that changes to the code will minimally affect automated test execution. We utilize techniques like BDD and languages like Gherkin. This helps us creating the right abstractions to avoid having an automated test suite that is too coupled with the implementation. As such, the advantages are that the tests will live with the code, and code changes can be easily implemented in the test suite. In this way, we can more quickly recognize regression issues.

Optimization and Maintenance

Changes to the project and its scope frequently happen, and they can affect solution architecture and functionality. When developing automated testing, such changes must be addressed as quickly as possible by immediately altering the automated test suite. Our experts at Zerone Corporation aim for high maintainability and will handle changes by smoothly adapting and optimizing existing tests and by developing new automated tests as conditions change.