Test Environment Setup

Objective
How to make your automation framework accessible through out all Test Environments in other sense how to make your automation objects ( scripts \ business objects ) reusable with other platforms with Automation Tools such as QTP \ Silk Test.

Problem
You have different test platforms such as
qa:6080 like build in qa 6080 port.
qa:7080 like build in integration qa 7080 port.
qa:8080 like build in staging qa 8080 port.
Live environment (like any production site)

We need to have centralized automation script that can get access to all above platforms.

Approach for problem solution
• We need to create
1.Function that can read current global environment configuration which may be in .xml.
2.Start-up Script that can add / update / set current environment from .xml or any other format – you can make GUI tool or use VBScript + Excel to maintain easily.

•We need to normalize all automation objects which are pointing to specific platform like filtering out all redundancy from automation objects – you can here use regular expression and concate current environment by calling function.

Execution
Execute your start-up script to set up current environment we want to go on.
Associate function to the script and call it as mention above.

QA Automation in V Model

QA Automation in V-Model

Low level Testing

• Unit Testing with NUnit (and MS Visual Studio), xUnit and HTMLUnit on Java and C# / ASP.Net plateform.
• HTTP Request-Response Testing with Selenium, Canoo WebTest, SOAPUI and other free-ware tools.

Integration Level Testing.

• Components Interface Testing.
• Web-Service Testing with SOAPUI
  
• API Testing with WebTest Canoo \ QTP \ SilkTest
• Function \ Smoke Testing \ Regression Testing

High Level Testing.

• Cross Browser \ Cross Platform Testing.
• GUI Testing with Tools such as Mercury QTP, Silk Test, WinRunner.
• Load \ Performance testing with LoadRunner.

~NV