Test Tools

 

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Journal Overview

This Journal has mainly focused on the Quality Engineering and Test Automation that the industry expects from employees was explained in the webinar and this journal provides a brief description of Test Management Tools.

 

2. Quality Engineering and Test Automation

2.1 Summary

Quality engineering is the discipline of engineering concerned with the principles and practice of product and service quality assurance and control. In software development, it is the management, development, operation, and maintenance of IT systems and enterprise architectures with a high-quality standard.

Test automation is the practice of running tests automatically, managing test data, and utilizing results to improve software quality. It is primarily a quality assurance measure, but its activities involve the commitment of the entire software production team.

 

2.2 Learning Outcome

The purpose of the webinar is that we can how to do test cases and maintain quality in a project.

Test automation helps you reduce the feedback cycle and bring faster validation for phases in the development of your product. Test automation is especially useful because it helps you detect problems or bugs early on during the development phase, which increases the team's efficiency

 

2.3 Quality Engineering

Quality engineering is the discipline of engineering concerned with the principles and practice of product and service quality assurance and control. In software development, it is the management, development, operation, and maintenance of IT systems and enterprise architectures with a high-quality standard.

 

2.4 Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering

In the traditional model of ensuring quality, a team of quality assurance professionals comes in after the product has been finished, to detect any faults with the product before it goes to the users. This method is generally known as quality assurance. If there are any defects in the product, the product is sent back to the team responsible for the offending part.

An analysis of the quality assurance model shows that the method has several inefficiencies. For example, sometimes these quality assurance teams may identify faults that require the product to be redesigned. To do this, more time and resources are needed. This may also result in delays in getting the product to the end-user.

2.5 Software Testing

Software testing is a process used to identify the correctness, completeness and quality of a developed computer software. It is defined as an activity to check whether the actual results match the expected results and to ensure that the software system is defect free. Software testing also helps to identify errors, gaps or missing requirements in contrary to the actual requirements. It includes a set of activities conducted with the intent of finding errors in software, so that it could be corrected before the product is released to the end users.

 

2.6 Test Framework

A testing framework is a set of guidelines or rules used for creating and designing test cases. A framework is comprised of a combination of practices and tools that are designed to help QA professionals test more efficiently.

A set of guidelines like coding standards, test-data handling, object repository, etc. Which will be followed during automation scripting. Beneficial outcomes are increase code re-usage, higher portability, reduced script maintenance cost etc.

 

2.7 Popular Automation Frameworks

The Data-Driven Testing Framework

The Keyword-Driven or Table-Driven Testing Framework

The Hybrid Test Automation Framework

 

2.8 Test Tools

A software product that support one or more test activities, such as planning and control of test, Test Specification, Building files and data used for test, Test execution and Test result analysis. A piece of software that is used to make the testing process more effective or efficient. Anything that makes testing faster, easier, more accurate etc.

Testing Tools in software testing can be defined as products that support various test activities starting from planning, requirement gathering, build creation, test execution, defect logging and test analysis. These testing tools are mainly used for testing software firmness, thoroughness, and other performance parameters.

 

2.9 Tools at work throughout the SDLC

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Management is a process that aims to develop software with the lowest cost, highest quality, and in the shortest time.  It also includes detailed documentation for how to develop, extend, and maintain the software system. A Software Development Life Cycle involves several different stages, including requirements gathering, planning/designing, building, testing, and finally deployment.

2.10 Open-Source Tools and Commercial Tools

            Open-Source Tools

·        Selenium – Test Automation

·        Jmeter – Performance Testing

·        AutoIT – Test automation on Windows GUI(Non HTML)

·        Soap – Service Testing

·        Appium – Mobile Testing framework

·        Sonarcube – Static code analyser

·        BugZilla – Defect management

 

Commercial Tools

·        UFT (Formerly QTP) by HP,Verifix by Greenline , RFT by IBM,Silk Test by Borland – Test automation

·        LoadRunner by Micro Focus – Performance Testing

·        GenRocket – Synthetic Test data generation

·        Jira – Agile Lifecycle management

·        QC by Microfocus – Test Management

·        IBM security AppScan,Veracode – Static and Dynamic code analysis for security vulnerabilities

·        Smartbear Collaborator – Static code analyser

·        Perfecto – Mobile testing (Simulation etc.)

·        BrowserStack – Cross browser Web testing

 

2.11 Test Automation

Test automation is the practice of running tests automatically, managing test data, and utilizing results to improve software quality. It's primarily a quality assurance measure, but its activities involve the commitment of the entire software production team.

 

2.12 Why and When to Automation

 Frequent Regression Testing

Repeated Test Case Execution is Required

Increase Testing Scope Coverage

Reduces Human Effort

Test Same Application On Multiple Environments

2.13 Test Automation Tool

Licensed Tools

·        Unified Functional Test (UFT) By Hp

·        Rational Functional Tester (RFT) By IBM

·        See Test by Experitest

Open-Source Tools

·        Selenium

·        Robot Framework

·        Appium

2.14 Test Automation Tool - Katalon and Test NG

Katalon Studio currently supports executing test cases from Selenium, TestNG, or JUnit projects. 

When it comes to Selenium-based testing, Katalon Studio is a tool of choice for testers and automation engineers. The wide range of built-in features can help simplify the test case building process for users. However, for those who are still working with TestNG and Selenium, Katalium is a great head start.

 

2.15 Test Automation Tool - Selenium

Selenium is a popular open-source web-based automation tool. This online course is a step by step guide to learn Selenium Concepts. It is recommended you refer these Selenium Tutorials sequentially, one after the other.

 

3. Conclusion

Testing is important because software bugs could be expensive or even dangerous. Software bugs can potentially cause monetary and human loss.

Test management tools are used to store information on how testing is to be done, plan testing activities and report the status of quality assurance activities. The tools have different approaches to testing and thus have different sets of features. Generally, they are used to maintain and plan manual testing, run, or gather execution data from automated tests, manage multiple environments, and to enter information about found defects. Test management tools offer the prospect of streamlining the testing process and allow quick access to data analysis, collaborative tools, and easy communication across multiple project teams. Many test management tools incorporate requirements management capabilities to streamline test case design from the requirements. Tracking of defects and project tasks are done within one application to further simplify the testing.

A test management tool that includes everything needed to manage the test process can save testers the problems of installing separate applications that are necessary for the testing process, which can also be time-consuming. They can be implemented with minimal programming ability, allowing for easy installation and monitoring of the test process across multiple project groups. Once installed, teams have instant access to a user interface and can immediately start running and recording test cases. These types of applications are designed to simplify the test management process with high levels of automation and tracking built-in, yet do not require advanced programming skills or knowledge to implement. They are useful for teams who manage a variety of test cases and for larger teams who need an all-inclusive application for project management.