1. Automation – “A Critical Component of Agile testing”
Anuja Saxena – Technical Lead Testing
Peeyush Jain – Senior Software Testing
Aricent

2. ABSTRACT
In recent times, agile methodology has grown in popularity due to its undoubted eminence of brisk development and testing without enduring the quality of the software. “Test Automation in Agile Environment” is one of the traditions now being pursued mostly to maintain agility and to minimize the human efforts. Here we are presenting that “Test automation in Agile environment” is the best way to increase the efficacy, cogency and coverage of your software testing.
This paper presents an idea about the Challenges, benefits and Strategies of implementing “Test Automation in Agile” and some Data supporting of them.

3. AGENDA Let’s Start with some Introduction Agile Methodology
Challenges in Test Automation in Agile Environment
Then Benefits and Strategies of Automation in Agile
Finally the “Conclusions”

4. Automation in Agile
Automation is a critical component of agile testing. The significance of automating test cases lies in the fact that the count of test cases at the system testing level will keep on increasing after each sprint whenever a new functionality is going to get added and then the old code needs to be regressed to authenticate them.
Due to time constraints, it is important to know what should be automated in best possible way to get good returns from automation.

5. The way it should be..
Automation is required to determine the stability of module developed in each Sprint as depicted in Figure above.
Furthermore, with automation ready, module developed in Sprint 1 can be tested up to ‘n’ sprints without incurring any cost in terms of manual testing.
All the defects that are found are fixed on priority. Automation can be carried at different phases in agile. i.e. Unit, Integration, System, Regression.

6. Test Automation Challenge in Agile
Challenges…
Test Automation Challenge in Agile
Skill Set
Team
Right Tester
Money
Management
Sprint
tool
Right Tester
delivery
Requirement Change
Right Tool Selection
Project
Backlog
System level cases
Technical Knowledge
Product
Money
Time
feedback
Maintenance
Integration
Planning

7. Automation Test Strategy
Strategies..
Automation Efforts
PI Planning
Sprint Planning
Automation Test Strategy
Select right test cases to automate
Select tools
Design and Implement
Create Framework
Establish coding guidelines
Rollout
Start scripting
Automate tests that lasts
Maintain scripts
Story DOD –
Includes
Automation
Right Framework
Keyword driven
Data Driven
Right Tool

8. Benefits of Test Automation in Agile
24X7 execution
Unit
Integration
System
Regression
Re-usability
Reliability
ROI

9. Regression Effectiveness of Test Automation in Agile

10. Examples of Test Automation in Agile Project

11. Conclusions
In a nutshell, test automation in agile is the best way to achieve testing goals and efficient use of resources and time.
Convincing management to add resources and make an investment in test automation will be lucrative if the Test cases need to be regressed periodically.
Tests that need to be run just a few times or very seldom are not profitable to automate. You need to adopt a strong test automation strategy and need to be cautious while selecting the right automation tool.
Test automation leads to more exhaustive testing as same test can be regressed several times with varied set of data. This gives you the confidence in the system and its quality is enhanced when more comprehensive tests are performed.

12. Happy Learning…
In a nutshell, test automation in agile is the best way to achieve testing goals and efficient use of resources and time.
Convincing management to add resources and make an investment in test automation will be lucrative if the Test cases need to be regressed periodically.
Tests that need to be run just a few times or very seldom are not profitable to automate. You need to adopt a strong test automation strategy and need to be cautious while selecting the right automation tool.
Test automation leads to more exhaustive testing as same test can be regressed several times with varied set of data. This gives you the confidence in the system and its quality is enhanced when more comprehensive tests are performed.
“Automation does not do what testers used to do, unless one ignores most things a tester really does. Automated testing is useful for extending the reach of the testers work, not to replace it.”— James Bach

13. References & Appendix http://reqtest.com http://www.cigniti.com

14. Author Biography
Anuja Saxena has 7+ years’ experience of working on Automation Framework and manual testing of medium to large sized projects in Telecom domain. She is currently working as a Technical Leader in Aricent Technologies. She has strong exposure of various software development life cycle including Requirement Understanding, Design, Feature Analysis, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Execution and Test Automation of assigned features.
Peeyush Jain works as a Senior Engineer – Testing at Aricent and have 5 years of experience in Automation testing in different domains. He has been involved in various frameworks design and creation and has good exposure of Test Planning, Test Execution.

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