Software Test Automation practices in agile development environment: An industry experience report

Author

Collins, Eliane Figueiredo ; De Lucena, Vicente Ferreira, Jr.

Author_Institution

Nokia Inst. of Technol., Manaus, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

2-3 June 2012

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

63

Abstract

The increased importance of Test Automation in software engineering is very evident considering the number of companies investing in automated testing tools nowadays, with the main aim of preventing defects during the development process. Test Automation is considered an essential activity for agile methodologies being the key to speed up the quality assurance process. This paper presents empirical observations and the challenges of a test team new to agile practices and Test Automation using open source testing tools integrated in software projects that use the Scrum methodology. The results obtained showed some important issues to be discussed and the Test Automation practices collected based on the experiences and lessons learned.

Keywords

program testing; public domain software; software prototyping; software tools; Scrum methodology; agile development environment; automated testing tool; defect prevention; industry experience report; open source testing tool; quality assurance process; software engineering; software project; software test automation; Automation; Business; Graphical user interfaces; Manuals; Programming; Software; Testing; agile testing; software testing; test automation; testing tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation of Software Test (AST), 2012 7th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1821-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWAST.2012.6228991

Filename

6228991