on March 27th and 28th, 2007

Authored and Presented by: Sathyen from Ready Test Go, CSS Group

Abstract:

  • Introduction
  • Why Framework?
  • Challenges
  • Tool Recommendation Approach
  • Design and Development Approach
  • Key-Benefits
  • Q & A

Business Needs

Software Testing has gained significant importance in the recent past and the industry expects a market of 13 Billion USD in 2006. Business shower of today is such that IT organizations are asked to do more with fewer resources, reduced time and without reduction in the quality of the product that is being delivered. This scenario calls for the following factors:

  • Identify a best suited tool for my application
  • Test automation of my multi technology product suite(for ex: containing a UI based application and SOA based web services)
  • Cost-effective approach

Solution Topics

A phased approach considering different factors would provide a solution to this approach. Proposed topic would cover:

  • Need for a framework and the challenges for creating a framework.
  • Different phases involved in framework development
  • For tool recommendation: types of tool and factors to be considered
  • Factors to be considered, while creating a framework
  • Components to be included in designing the framework
  • How to design a prototype for input data files?
  • Key- benefits of framework

End-User Benefits

Business user will be benefited, by understanding different factors involved in the test automation framework and the key-benefits and ROI in future

Technical users will know how to design a customized framework for different application and propose a cost-effective solution.

Project managers would come to know about, what needs to be considered only for estimation of framework development.

Presenter Profile:

Sathyen from Ready Test Go, CSS Group

    As a Senior Technical Analyst at ReadyTestGo, Satyan has been working on various test automation projects, providing tool extensibility solutions and test automation framework design. With more than 6 years of work experience in the IT industry he specializes in providing a consultative approach for test automation solutions. Satyan has designed 15+ test automation frameworks for major clients. He also conducts research on different technologies which includes SOA testing, emulator based testing, and Web Testing and MFC based application testing. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications from the University of Madras, also holds a Microsoft certification on .net architecture.