Exploring no man's land with keyword driven testing
Martin Gijsen, Founder DeAnalist, Netherlands DeAnalist
Testers are good at analysis and at creating tests. But few are both willing and able to create a maintainable automated test solution. Many developers would be able, but few are interested. This leaves automated testing as a kind of no man's land in between testing and developing.
Keyword driven testing helps because it enables us to separate the WHAT and the HOW of an automated test. Well defined keywords allow testers to read, write and maintain automated tests with ease and significantly reduce the maintenance sensitivity of tests. The testers can then focus on WHAT to test. Someone with software engineering skills can implement the keywords and focus on executing the automated test, the HOW part
Meet Martin Gijsen
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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