Drive Your Business Outcomes with Automated Software Testing
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Every time software code is modified, it has to be tested manually to ensure quality. With increasing codebase and added functionality, manual testing turns laborious, inefficient and costly. Automation testing helps automate highly repetitive test cases to provide testing coverage on core business processes, cutting costs by up to 40% and reduce test times by over 20%.
We help design and implement an automated testing strategy for organizations and ensure that there is an operational plan in place to maintain it. Test scripts developed by us will be the property of clients and we will provide guidance to enhance them when needed.
Time saved is time earned!
UI or Functional testing
Before shipping software, your application always has to be tested functionally. To achieve that, you need to manually interact with the User Interface, perform common scenarios, and ensure you get the correct outcome. However, this is very labour intensive and expensive in terms of manual resources as your regression suite will continuously grow as your product evolves.
To circumvent those limitations, a subset of your manual tests should be automated. This is achieved by using specialized software that is capable of interacting with your application. Despite its up-front cost, test automation has a good ROI as those tests can be re-executed as often as desired without any manual intervention. Some tests are more suited for test automation such as:
- Simple tests: as they can be easily automated with a very good ROI
- Iterative tests: by repeating the same tests with data variations (data-driven tests)
- Smoke tests: tests that will be executed very often
- Stable tests: tests where the UI never changes
Mobile Automation
Mobile devices such as smartphones have become so important that they are now the main tool of interaction with Internet. Ever increasingly, native applications are becoming available on those devices even before desktop ones.
However, due to the competing operating systems from various vendors and also to the various form factors, the amount of testing required is phenomenal. Unless you want to restrict support to just a few models (but you will also restrict your client’s reach), you will have to test the application across tens of devices, each having different operating systems, screen ratios & resolution and capabilities.
Using a mobile device test lab with real devices or a cloud-based solution will help achieve your testing goals.
The service layer provides a very well defined semantic which can be used for testing the business logic of an application. By taking advantage of this, you can create a set of automated tests that can reliably validate this area of your application and be very cost effective.
Automation Framework
Writing automated tests is a specialist skill. A developer in test must have competencies in both software development and testing as test scripts are nothing but code.
As a consequence, the same development principles must be applied to writing test scripts such as:
- Abstraction
- Re-usability
- Maintainability
- Understandability
To meet those principles, it is recommended to implement a test automation framework on top of the testing tool. This ensures that best practices are being applied. This also minimizes costs when maintenance needs to be performed.
API Automation
If you are used to manual testing, you probably expect to have a user interface in order to test the application. However, in the software world testing can be done by interacting with the application via its API.
The service layer provides a very well defined semantic which can be used for testing the business logic of an application. By taking advantage of this, you can create a set of automated tests that can reliably validate this area of your application and be very cost effective.
Continuous Integration
Continuous integration testing is a practice that is carried out to integrate code into a shared repository regularly to analyze and locate errors more quickly. Netow Solutions can help integrate integrate continuous integration testing process of your projects.
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[/info_list_item][info_list_item list_title=”2. Time” list_icon=”icomoon-icomoonfree-16×16-alarm” title_font=”font_family:Open Sans Condensed|font_call:Open+Sans+Condensed|variant:700″ title_font_style=”font-weight:700;” title_font_size=”desktop:16px;” title_font_line_height=”desktop:22px;” desc_font_size=”desktop:14px;” desc_font_line_height=”desktop:20px;”]Reduce development time due to increased testing speed.
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[/info_list_item][info_list_item list_title=”5. Productivity” list_icon=”Defaults-signal” title_font=”font_family:Open Sans Condensed|font_call:Open+Sans+Condensed|variant:700″ title_font_style=”font-weight:700;” title_font_size=”desktop:16px;” title_font_line_height=”desktop:22px;” desc_font_size=”desktop:14px;” desc_font_line_height=”desktop:20px;”]Optimize resource usage by reducing the time required to execute test.
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1. ASSESSMENT PHASE
- Understanding of Business Requirements
- Evaluation of Testing Requirements
- Tool and Technology Selection
2. PLANNING PHASE
- Defining Scope and Resources
- Preparing Test Cases
- Tool Installation and Configuration
3. AUTOMATION & OPTIMIZATION PHASE
- Framework Implementation
- Script Preparation
4. EXECUTION PHASE
- Test Case Execution Result Capturing
- Review and Analysis
5. REPORTING PHASE
- Defect and Error Reporting
TOOLS WE USE
We continue to upgrading our skill set in using the latest tools and adopting best practices.
Have any questions? Netow Solutions is here to help you attain all your business desires…
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