Customized Test Automation Solutions for Business Need

Shubhra Goyal (Senior Technology Architect Infosys)Date and Year : May 2, 2023

Agenda Abstract

Key Business Challenges

Business Case 1

• Business Case 2

• Conclusion

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Business todays demands a customized solutions to verify/certify the quality of the product within a shorter time. Traditional approach of test automation and tool selection might not be applicable for all business needs.

The need of the hour is to build a customized , integrated automation solutions align with business requirement. The traditional test automation approach(UI Level Automation) is lagging in key aspects of delivering product/software fast and reduce the testing time. 

Understanding of the business needs of applications and a customized automation process would help to reduce the testing cost , deliver on time and unearthed the business critical defects. 

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Only 30% Coverage is

achieved even though ~400 TC are automated

Frequent P1 Production

Defects even tough automation

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Our Automation solutions is not

scalable to improve the

coverage beyond the UI

Key Business Challenges

Business Case 15

UI rich application contains the images , dynamic UI and application accessibility of application in multiple device , browsers is critical business needs.

Q’s to determine Automation SolutionsQ1) Is usability/accessibility testing of application UI is critical business needs -- YESQ2) Is testing of the application in various devices and OS combination is critical -- YESQ3) Is validation of UI covers the more than 70% business scenarios. -- YES

In above scenario traditional approach for UI automation using tools like Selenium , Appium , Protractor , UFT is sufficient and robust automation framework for UI layer automation works.

Business Case 26

Complex Application involves large EDW, ETL jobs and data verification. The presentation layer is a web based application which provides the filtered information from various DW via a Web Services.

Q’s to determine Automation SolutionsQ1) Are the majority of defects are due to data gap/mismatch from Data mart to UI layer -- YESQ2) Is validation of UI covers the more than 70% business scenarios -- NOQ3) Is validation of xml files flowing to external system is critical for business need -- YES

In above scenario traditional approach for UI automation using tools like Selenium , Protractor , UFT is NOT sufficient and we have to develop the integrated automation solutions by various tools covering the ETL/DW Data and UI layer.

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The traditional automation approach targeting mainly UI for the application involves multiple layer , data , external interface , only covers 30% of business scenarios , to improve the

coverage and drive the automation solution/ framework a comprehensive study of application business need is required.

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Case Study : Customized/Integrated Automation Testing Solutions Major Manufacturing Client of US.– Update with more concrete data points for challenges

3 Yrs.Engagement Duration

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Releases

Client Challenges To reduce regression Test execution time and improve a coverage for one

of the major release. Reduce Turn around time between Development and testing. Complete e2e testing of the application involving multiple layers ( Services

, DB, UI) Reduce the UAT testing cycle.

Infosys Solution• Integrated e2e automation solutions is developed by integrating

the multiple tools ( Selenium , SOPUI , DB SQL Queries)• Automation is done for all layers of applications ( UI , Services ,

DB)

Value addsSingle click automation benefits After integrated UI , DB and Services validation solution 3 production defects were identified if not found would have led to financial loss of ~ 300K USD Automated regression coverage increased to 75% for UI and 95% with minimal scripting using the integrated automation framework. These automation scripts are used for build sanity testing for every build as well as regression testing for every release Has saved more than 60% of manual effort for validating thousands of rules through UI and Services

Thank You