In today?s fast-paced product development environment, there is a critical need to execute product testing meticulously and quickly. In addition, the products need to offer high reliability. Automated testing techniques use various tools to drastically reduce the time required to generate and execute test cases. They also ensure that the testing becomes...   Read Article.

The use of home-brewed test automation has grown in recent years along with the growth in Extreme Programming (XP) practices, said Brad Pettichord. XP typically calls for fast projects and moderate modeling, none of which works, according to XP gurus, unless iterative testing techniques are followed....   Read Article.

In this era of cut-throat competition, every organization wants to take early movers’ advantage in introducing new products. This has led to drastic reduction in the product development cycle time. Testing, an important phase of the development cycle, has also suffered from this shrinking of cycle time. Testers are usually given lesser and lesser time...   Read Article.

This is 16 page white paper PDF document on Model-based Approach to Security Test Automation. Security functional testing is a costly activity typically performed by security evaluation laboratories. These laboratories have struggled to keep pace with increasing demand to test numerous product variations. This paper summarizes the results of applying...   Read Article.

This is 16 page white paper PDF document explains When Should a Test Be Automated. The question, then, is how to make a rational decision. When I take a job as a contract tester, I typically design a series of tests for some product feature. For each of them, I need to decide whether that particular test should be automated. This paper describes how...   Read Article.

Test Automation Architectures: This article is 17 page pdf document. This paper is essentially a progress report. I can’t (yet) tell you how to succeed in test automation, but I know more of the pieces of more of the puzzles than I did when we started setting up the first meeting, in 1996. The progress has been uneven, and so is this paper. But I hope...   Read Article.

This chapter is meant to introduce the XUnit terminology used throughout the book and to explain how the framework operates beneath the covers. These patterns will eventually be rewritten in the new format so please focus on the content rather than the wording. XUnit is a family of Test Automation Frameworks, one for each programming language to...   Read Article.

Automating the execution of tests is becoming more and more popular as the need to improve software quality amidst increasing system complexity becomes ever stronger. The appeal of having the computer run the tests in a fraction of the time it takes to perform them manually has led many organisations to attempt test automation without a clear understanding...   Read Article.

Abstract—Program testing is expensive and laborintensive, often consuming more than half of the total development costs, and yet it is frequently not done well and the results are not always satisfactory. However, testing is the primary method to ensure that programs comply with requirements. We describe our on-going project that attempts to completely...   Read Article.

Best Practices in Software Test Automation:Best practices are guidelines and advice on the best way to do something; collected over time and based on experience with previous projects. Best practices in an organisation should come from the bottom of the organisation up, rather than being mandated by management. These best practices might even differ...   Read Article.

In today’s environment of plummeting cycle times, test automation becomes an increasingly critical and strategic necessity. Assuming the level of testing in the past was sufficient (which is rarely the case), how do we possibly keep up with this new explosive pace of web-enabled deployment while retaining satisfactory test coverage and reducing risk?...   Read Article.

Automation Testing versus Manual Testing Guidelines I met with my team’s automation experts a few weeks back to get their input on when to automate and when to manually test. The general rule of thumb has always been to use common sense. If you’re only going to run the test one or two times or the test is really expensive to automation, it is most...   Read Article.

Automation explained Test automation means different things to different people in different contexts. When I talk about automated testing I am referring to; A method of executing a test without human intervention, that would otherwise require it. In practical terms that may mean a nUnit test, a GUI test using a commercial testing tool, or a test...   Read Article.

The balance of this article shows exactly how these capabilities help the operator avoid errors and improve throughput. It is important to note that the attributes of our tester result from the PC’s high-resolution color graphic display, hard disk mass storage, programmability, and graphics printer drivers. Lacking a PC, these attributes would not be...   Read Article.

Automated testing using Unix Shell Scripting.Testing is a critical part of software development - and Shell, which is already part of Unix can help you do it quickly and easily. This paper, explains advantages of Unix shell scripting for test automation on Unix, useful shell commands for test automation, testing interactive application using expect,...   Read Article.

AUTOMATED GUI TESTING: As software becomes increasingly complex, testing has never been more important. Most programs these days are driven by some form of graphical user interface, and the need to test these has led to the development of specialist test tools.Like all products, software must be tested before it is released to the customer. As the...   Read Article.

Today software test automation is becoming more and more popular in both C/S and web environment. As the requirements keep changing (mostly new requirements are getting introduced on daily basis) constantly and the testing window is getting smaller and smaller everyday, the managers are realizing a greater need for test automation. This is good news...   Read Article.

GUI (graphical user interface) tools can boast a lot of capabilities. Approaching GUI test automation as a programming project, you'll need a tool appropriate to the size of your project. Here's a rundown of the key features you'll need in the GUI test automation product you buy. • Factors to consider in choosing a GUI testing tool...   Read Article.

Host-Target Testing This paper discusses the issues involved in host-target testing, and shows how AdaTEST and Cantata can be used to implement an effective host-target testing strategy. The efficiency of host-target software development can be maximised by an effective host-target testing strategy. Target system bottlenecks can be avoided and investment...   Read Article.