How to Select the right Testing Tool

Regardless of the situation, the customers always expect personalized, seamless experiences when interacting with a company. As an example, if a customer is replacing her atm card, the bank should gather some information from her such as the reason for replacement, where the new card should be delivered to and so on. Providing the customer, a seamless automated service is considered to be code-heavy and time consuming. Therefore, test automation has historically been challenging.

Identifying the right test automation tool is a very critical process for a company which ensures the success of the overall testing process. Therefore, a more detailed analysis should be conducted before the tool selection. The effort you put into the tool analysis process enables the successful execution of the project. The tool selection depends of the following factors,

• Detailed testing requirements
• License cost of the tool
• The application and the technology stack
• Available skill sets within the organization

During the test tool analysis phase, a key parameter comparison would help the identification process according to the project requirements. The most important parameters for a project when identifying a test automation tool are listed below. According to the project’s automation requirements, the values can be assigned to each parameter to make a comparison. And the tool with the highest tool can be used for further investigation.

Selection of test Automation Framework

Test automation Framework can be defined as an extensible, defined support structure within which the test automation suit is developed and implemented using the selected tool. This includes the physical structures used for the test creation and implementation along with the logical interaction between components such as, test data location, code guidelines, organized directory structure, OR location, common function location and so on.

A well-defined test automation framework will help the organization to achieve higher reusability of test components, develop the scripts which are easily maintainable and obtain high quality test automation scripts. If the automation test framework is implemented right, it could be reused across projects resulting in savings on effort and better return on investment (ROI) from the automation projects.

After a thorough analysis of the pros and cons pf these frameworks, most of the companies opt for hybrid frameworks which allows them to get the benefit from multiple frameworks.