Test Automation

At Kumaran, test automation forms a core part of every test project. Our dedicated Test Automation team develops and customizes the Kumaran automation test suite that will be implemented across projects. In addition to its proficiency in using industry-standard tools like HP Quick Test Professional, the team also has hands-on-experience in using Open Source tools.

Business Challenges

Many organizations acquire a test automation tool and begin the automation process without any consideration about maintenance, scalability, or effectiveness and they expect immediate payback. Automation test suite needs to be designed with specialized skill sets so that it provides these results:

• Reduced test cycle time to enable faster release to market
• End-to-end test automation with minimal human intervention
• Reusable automation components
• Flexible, repeatable, and stable automation suite

Kumaran’s test automation services enable organizations to create testing assets, frameworks, and components that can be reused across projects to ensure maximum ROI on automation.

Our Automated Testing Approach

Kumaran has defined and organized an automation framework model, which makes automation easy. This framework is designed such that anybody can use it and automate the business process validation in easy steps. It focuses more on test coverage instead of coding. The automation scripts can be reused as plug and play. These features make the test script maintenance and testing much easier.

Pre-Automation Approach

Kumaran’s well-defined pre-automation approach can be applied to all projects that require Automation Testing. Understanding the scope of automation and doing a feasibility study of tools to be used for the project would be the crucial activities. Our automation experts choose the right tools that may vary depending upon the client requirement, project scope and budgets.

The various stages that are involved in Automated Testing are: Test Planning, Scripting, Dry Run, Execution, Analyzing, and Verification.

Table of Automation Testing Stages

KSTS Automation Framework Model

User Interface

A wrapper built around the tool, which process all the activities and makes call to different APIs and scripts

Driver Script

The master script that calls test scenarios and test case, and processes the application events which simulate user click and set text

Lib Files

A set of files where all procedure, functions, and APIs are defined to make the test execution faster

Test Scenarios

A collection of calls to reusable functions that make a complete scenario

Reusable Functions

A set of functions that run the application such as login and logout

Test Tool

The actual tool

Test Data

A shared pool of data used by the framework for executing test with multiple data or iteration

AUT

Application Under Test

App. DB

Application Database

HTML Result

The drill down result file, generated by the framework with the output received from the tool

Business Benefits

Here is the business value that we assure you:

• Accurate and reliable test results with reduced test cycle time
• Automation Framework, which can be customized for any application developed across technologies
• Scheduled execution, that runs with minimal human intervention during non-working hours to optimize the benefits
• Extensive, customizable, and user-friendly reports, including email summary