What is automation test lifecycle management?

Answer 1

Automation Test Lifecycle is one of the concept similar to SDLC and STLC. It is in use by software testing companies for software automation. Major components of ATLC:

1- Automation feasibility analysis

The main objective of this phase is to check feasibility of automation. Identifying which test cases can be automated and how to automate them, identifying which automation tool will be best of our application, team size, effort and cost involved for tools.

2- Test Plan/Test Design

Test automation services company should create such a test plan which fetch all the manual test cases from test management tool which needs to be automated, test plan should include identification of automation framework along with pros and cons, creation of a test suite for automation test case in Test Management tool, mentioning background, limitation, risk and dependency between application and tools, approval from client/ Stack holders.

3- Environment Setup/Test lab setup

It includes machine setup or remote machine where our test case will execute, number of machine required, hardware and software configuration.

4-Test Script development/ Automation testcase development

We have to start develop automation script and make sure all test scripts are running fine and should be stable enough, script creation according to requirement, script should be easy, reusable,well structured and well documented so if third person check your script then he/she can understand your scripts easily, use of better reporting so in case of failing we can trace our code and finally reviewing our script.

5-Test script execution

Script should cover all the functional requirement as per testcase, it should be stable so it should run in multiple environment and multiple browsers, batch execution can be done if possible so it will save time and effort, in case of failure our script should take screen shots, if test case is failing due to functionality, we have to raise a bug/defect.

6- Generate test result / Analysis of result

This is the last phase of Automation test life cycle in which we will gather test result and will share with team/client/stack holders, analyze the output and calculate how much time it take to complete the testcase, we should have good report generation like XSLT report, TestNG report, ReporterNG etc.

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