Quick test automation

Giri Prasad Palanivel, an automation testing engineer for aspire systems, shared their successful automated testing experience:

Rapid test automation using testcomplete
Http://www.automatedqa.com/blogs/post/11-02-28/rapid-test-automation-using-testcomplete/

Some excerpts are as follows:

About the Framework Design:

Keep in mind that a framework that worked for one particle project may not be a good fit in another project. So let me list few points to consider while designing your framework.

1. Separate your data from your tests.
2. Build a library of common functions to aid in code reuse.
3. Have test data/expected data in a format which is widely supported in and out of the selected automation tool selected.
4. Try to have the framework independent of the tool/language.
5. Accommodate Exception Handling and recovery scenarios.

Modify the recording script:

Once you 've finished recording, go back to your recorded scripts and examine the code. Look for places where you can modify it per your framework design. Ask questions like:

• Which part of the code can be reused/modularized/parameterized?
• How to best organize your code guest SS suite/project/modules?
• How tested objects are to be stored in 'namemapping'
• Decide 'testedapps' launch properties.

Object Recognition:

We might come into ss a few objects which are not readily recognized. In that case we may need to consider the following workarounds:

• Try for a regular expression/wildcards in properties to identify the object.
• Have a combination of properties of an object/control to identify it uniquely.
• Relatively identify the objects-as parent, child and positional constraints etc.

Author's blog:

Http://automate101.wordpress.com/