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November 09 – November 25, 2009 |
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| Key Word Based Test Automation |
| Martin Gijsen, DeAnalist |
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| Bangalore: November 18, 2009 |
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Workshop Overview:
Functional automated testing often fails before the investments in it have paid off. A major reason is the amount of maintenance to the tests and other testware. This is actually easy to avoid by adopting the fourth generation approach to automated testing, keyword driven testing. It ensures that test analysts do not require programming skills to create or maintain automated tests. It also significantly reduces the test maintenance effort for as long as the system is being tested. A key feature of the approach is the use of business oriented 'keywords': easy to use test instructions that are defined by the test analysts themselves, specifically for a System Under Test. Examples will use the freeware ETA Framework. The approach can be used with many tools, including commercial ones. Note that implementing keywords, being a technical task, is out of scope here.
This practical workshop will supply the participant with:
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A good understanding of the theory of test automation, including the causes of the usual maintenance issues, |
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Sufficient practice in defining and documenting good keywords, |
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Experience creating and maintaining automated tests (for several, very different systems), |
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Applied techniques to further reduce the maintenance effort for automated tests, |
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An initial version of keywords and some test cases for a real system of your choice, |
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An overview of the available tools (including free and open source software), |
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How the approach fits into a waterfall or agile process. |
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Tips on introducing the approach into an organization |
Martin Gijsen is an independent consultant from the Netherlands with over ten years of experience as a keyword driven testing enthousiast. He is a test consultant, a test automation architect, a software architect and a business analist in banking. He has released a freeware test automation framework for keyword driven testing. Martin holds a M.Sc. in computer science from an Amsterdam university and has presented at many international conferences. |
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