Manage Test Automation

Make your test automation a success. Find the approaches that will move you forward and sustain you. Avoid possible pitfalls of implementing and using test tools. Weigh costs and benefits with confidence.

Tools allow you to maximise the efficiency of your testing. The overwhelming choice of test automation tools illustrates that the possibilities for automating different areas of your test are as varied as the situations for which the tools have been designed. To find the right support, you need to ask the right questions when evaluating tools: What risks need to be addressed? How do you determine realistic cost-benefit analyses - and how do you convince your management?

With the mix of presentations, case studies and exercises, our practitioners will prepare you for the challenging task of automating your tests and your test process.

• Tools in the test process
  • Tool types and their applications (defect management, test management, test specification, etc.)
  • Tool introduction
• Preconditions for automation: pitfalls and success factors
• From manual testing via scripts to full automation
• Test environment and configuration management
• Software architectures and their components (using the TTCN standard model as an example)
• XML or JSON? Data formats and their interfaces
• Data-driven and keyword-driven test case design
• Dealing with test data: why does test data age and how do I ensure data consistency?
• Unit tests, daily build, smoke test, continuous integration: automation in development testing
• Automation of system testing with different approaches of business testers and technical testers
• Dealing with third-party providers: Which tool supplier is right for me?
• Return on investment (ROI) of automation: typical cost traps, for example maintenance

Successful automation requires concepts, processes, and know-how. Regardless of individual tools or methods, this course will provide you with everything you need to evaluate the wide range of tools available against your own background and decide on the automation technology that best suits your needs.

Basic knowledge about software testing and/or development, for example from our course "ISTQB^® Certified Tester Foundation Level".