"When developing our test strategy, we must minimize the impact caused by changes in the applications we are testing, and changes in the tools we use to test them."
--Carl J. Nagle

Software testing is vital cog in the product / application SDLC. As the demands of the businesses have grown multi-fold for swift releases, organizations have found automation as the way forward to bridge the gap between the shortened development cycle and man power availability for testing, to churn out products at a break-neck speed. However, many organizations have failed in this endeavor to automate their test practices due to improper planning, lack of resources trained to implement the test strategy and most importantly the lack of time spent on building a long lasting automation framework.

Qualitree offers our customers, Qualitree 3rd Generation Software Testing proposition. With our unique keyword based test design solution, you can automate most part of your functional and regression testing, by automating the Design to Test Execution. Through our D2TEA (design-to-test-execution-automation) approach, you can reduce the cost and the time required for the STLC and help to gain higher levels of coverage.

Q3GST approach to test automation is structured on the principles that:

• Automation is a long-term test strategy and a fulltime effort.
• Automation framework is based on Keyword design, development, implementation and maintenance
• The Test Automation framework is application independent
• The Test design is framework independent
• The solution is independent of test execution tool

You can build a UML model of your application and capture the static and dynamic features of the application. The static features will be represented by Class diagrams and the dynamic features will be represented by State Machine diagrams. The three diagrams (Class, State-Machine and Instance diagrams) along with OCL (Object Constraint Language) will serve as an input to the Test Designer, which will generate test assets like Test Cases and Test Scripts.

Every time, there is a change in the requirements, the necessary changes are made to the model, which will automatically be reflected in the Test cases and the test scripts, as the model is used as input to the Test Designer. This is a boon for the testers, as they don't have to manually trace the test cases, to incorporate the necessary changes. The test scripts generated are keyword driven. Minimal effort is required for the implementation of these keywords. After implementation, the test scripts can be automatically executed and reported for test analysis.

Our solution would benefit customers in achieving:

• Implementation of a structured test design
• Better definition and clarity on the business requirements
• Accomplish higher level of coverage and reliability
• Quick iterations; means more releases
• Test Architecture that requires fewer resources, time and cost for maintenance

Graphical representation of the work flow:

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