Advanced Test Automation Framework Design

(CTM #6) or (CSTP Elective) or (CSTAS Elective)

This course covers area 6 of the Test Management Body of Knowledge (TMBOK) requirements. This course also counts as an Elective towards the requirements of the Certified Software Test Professional certification and the CSTAS certification.

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Concepts

This course expands on the concepts introduced in the Test Automation Essentials class and introduces new concepts. This class is intended for test automation professionals, test automation project managers, test automation engineers, and everyone involved in designing automated test data and framework design. It covers details on how to enhance a test automation framework. The course illustrates an Access-based data structure framework. It is based on the instructor's philosophy of using function libraries to assure object validation, reporting and reduced project management. The course also provides an deeper dive into regular expressions for improved objected recognition with multiple exercises.

Participants will learn:

• Overview of Framework Design and the challenges of Record and Playback 
• Learn advanced methodologies for Robust Execution
• Learn reporting within a Range and Negative Testing
• Learn advanced topics in Regular Expressions 
• Learn additional coding patterns and anti-patterns exceptions

Outline

• Automated Framework Testing Review
  • Choosing an Automation Tool
  • Addressing Test Automation Challenges
  • Hybrid Framework Architectures
  • Database Framework Design
  • Absolute and Relative File Paths
• Robust Execution
  • Data Placeholders and Data Replacement
  • Common Objects and Actions
  • Converting Data to Code with Dynamic Step Execution
  • Handling Failures and Exceptions
  • Test Re-Execution
  • Home State Recovery
• Advanced Reporting
  • Actual Results match Expected Results
  • Actual Results within Expected Results Range
  • Negative Testing
• Advanced Regular Expressions
  • RegEx "Gotchas"
  • Anchors and Ranges
  • Braces and Negative Shortcuts
• Advanced Coding Standards
  • Coding Patterns and Anti-Patterns
  • Anti Pattern Exceptions -Global Switches
  • Framework-based Application Synchronization
• Advanced Debugging
  • FILO Stack
  • Call Stack Trace
  • Static Code Analysis
• Resolving Hidden Issues
  • Task Automation
  • User Rights
  • Deferring Inactivity Log Off
  • Estimating Test Automation ROI