Future of Test Automation Tools & Infrastructure · Future of Test Automation Tools & Infrastructure Anand Bagmar ThoughtWorks . Custom frameworks Record & Playback Core Framework

Future of Test Automation Tools & Infrastructure

Anand Bagmar

ThoughtWorks

Custom frameworks

Record & Playback

Core Framework

Evolution

Custom Frameworks

• Hybrid

What is next?

Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Custom Frameworks

Record & Playback

Core Framework

Evolution

UI advancements !!!

The present!!!

Web catching up …

Gesture based technology

The future!!!

Spatial operating environment Professor John Underkoffler - MIT

Sixth Sense Technology Pranav Mistry

What we need to do?

AND ….

Think big!!

What this means for us?

UDD UI Driven Development

Features

• Result Analysis

• Charts & Graphs

• Archive

• Regular debugger functions

• Advanced debugger

• Execute tests • From within or

command line

• Create run command

• Remote machine(s) or locally

• Discovery

• Author

• Publish

• Plugin Manager

IDE Runtime

Report Debug

Plugins

UDD xPath Utilities

Discovery tools

Custom Reporting –

Trend analysis

Test data generators

Scheduling Language / framework

agnostic

Integration with external

tools & repositories

Omniture Testing

…

Discovery

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How do we get there?

• Write better structured / layered code

• Reusability – productize it

• Use external libraries instead of copying the

code directly.

Example 1 – Omniture Testing

• Generic approach

• Minimum existing test modification

Omniture_Methods.setRequiresOmnitureTesting();

• Test data defined in easy-to-understand XML

• Can test multiple set of Omniture sections.

• Extracted into a jar for easier reuse.

Example 2 – Custom Listener

• Control test execution flow

• Handle test dependencies

• Critical Test Failures

• Richer reports

Example 3 – Reporting

• Provide visibility “due” for Test automation

• Use the metrics that matter

• Subscription / RSS feed

• Archive