Why many Automation Frameworks? when ONE can do ALL Veeramanikandan Velumani – Tech lead Selvin S Sreekumar – Senior Automation Engineer Prabakaran Mayakkannan – Automation Engineer Fiserv Fiserv

Abstract Todays need for test automation is so that the framework has to handle anything and everything. While many in the industry are using different Automation Frameworks & tools for testing different Application layers, here we go with the working solution of ONE Framework for Automating all layers of application (Web, Mobile, Services, Database) with the capability to plug-in any (&multiple) Functional testing tools. We have created this framework with the thought "Everyone can automate" to enable manual testers to automate and thereby eliminating the thought that it can be done only by a dedicated Automation team. 

One Framework for all layers Challenges when using different frameworks & tools Integration of test cases between layers of applications involved lot of manual effort in spite of automating the tests as one tool might not talk to the other with ease. Major difficulty we faced was when creating different format of input data for different frameworks. Maintaining different design (input and output) for different framework became tedious. When there is a new version of tools was released then most of the time was spent accommodating the new changes to make the existing flow work. Movement of team members between teams became difficult as we had invested lot of time in training the resource in automating the test cases using the specific tool/framework. Hiring a person with the corresponding skill was again a challenging task Solution One Framework for all layers

Architecture Test Case File Test Control Logic Driver Page Methods Services Template Test Control Logic Selenium/ Appium Action in Applications Driver Report Generator Service API Screen Shot Generation Result in CSV File/Mail Reporting Dashboard Service Response Validation

Tools & API Selenium WebDriver – API (Web Applications) Appium / Node js (Mobile Automation) Phantom js (Head Less) HTTP Client – API (Services Automation) REST ASSURED – API (Services Automation) XML Unit - API (Services Automation) JSCH – API (Unix Server File downloads) Mail – API (Mailing the Result) Image Comparison API (Screenshot comparison) Mainframe Connectivity API (DB2 Connectivity) Extent Reports API (Automation Reporting Dashboard)

Automated Areas UI Functionality Automation Batch File Validation Soap WS/Rest WS Automation XML Parsing Mobile App/Web Test Library Head-Less Mode Schedulers Browser Compatibility Result File Reader Screenshot comparison Parallel Execution Flat File Validation API Automation Mainframe Database

Advantages Open Source Framework One framework for all needs(UI, web-Services, RestWS, Mobile App/Web, Screenshot Comparison and Browser Compatibility) Can support any tool Customized reporting dashboard Lightly loaded framework. Manual testers can do all the test. No need for a dedicated automation team Hassle-free Test preparation and execution Framework maintenance cost is very low

Achievements Made everyone automate their test cases Reduced more than 1000 hrs. of Manual effort for every release Maintaining >80% of In-Sprint Automation for every sprint

Manual Vs Automation (Per Release)

ROI (per cycle)

Author Biography I’m Veeramanikandan, Tech Lead at Fiserv. Started my career as a .NET developer in a Bangalore based start-up. Moved to Cash-Edge in 2010 for web service development. Very passionate in learning new things and adopting the new technologies. This passion made us to identify a solution for the challenge of having many tools and different automation processes for different layers of application. Working towards to be an “Architect” and “Consultant” for Automation.

Thank You!!! Fiserv