The agile software development approach is being rapidly adopted by organisations. In ORMB transformations this iterative approach helps mitigating risks, increase predictability of the application performance while reducing the overall go to market time.
With increasing adoption of agile approach in ORMB, organisations are opting for automation testing to produce high quality results in each sprint. Since the release cycle is short, it is essential to focus on the speed while yielding quality. Higher agility of the quality assurance makes development process efficient and faster while reducing the effort consumption.
Following are the ways to achieve effective automation testing in ORMB development to target critical, repetitive, and lengthy test processes.
Modelling the right business processes
It is important to create business process driven scripts that are outcome focused.
A typical consideration while creating such scripts are as follows:
- Processes repeated on a regular basis
- Critical steps and scenarios where risk must be mitigated
- Tedious technical processes that are difficult to perform manually
While meeting the above criteria test scripts should be lean to help eliminate unnecessary test data and make quick changes as per regression requirements. In ORMB test automation you can consider creating such test cases across modules such as Customer Management, Billing, Settlements & Receivables, Financial Controls, and Delinquency Management.
Usage of right tool
It is pivotal to get the right automation tool which meets your testing requirements and ensures the success of your test automation efforts.
Listed below are few features and functionalities that test automation tool must have regardless of the type of testing to be performed:
- The tool should have intuitive user interface, simple navigation, and functionality for easy adoption and usage even for non-technical users.
- It should be capable of meeting end-to-end testing requirements
- It should seamlessly integrate into the organization’s ecosystem
- It should support almost all operating systems
- The tool should allow users to model business processes cutting across various functional modules and upstream/downstream systems
- The tool you choose should be robust and provide quick results so that users can respond to the test results quickly
Insight driven testing
While performing automation testing it is important to gain insights into quality assurance process. The information on real-time progress and status of each test execution help users in effective tracking. Granular level breakdown of the test results by categories and associated execution-time enable users to identify focus areas. Such information regarding trends, and statistics in the testing process can make a massive difference in overall code quality improvement. This also help users in forming a holistic perspective on integrated and cross functional processes.
It is essential to have right mix of process models, tool and insight driven approach while creating test automation strategy for agile development. This will help reduce the business expenses and accelerate time to market significantly.
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