TestDrive - A Cost-effective Way to Create and Maintain Test Scripts for Web Applications

摘要

A large number of web applications are maintained and tested across the industry. Most of these change frequently and require a regression test suite to be run before major releases. As this is a repeated task, testers wish to automate it. We conducted some surveys and found that numerous projects had attempted an automation exercise and faced problems such as lot of time spent in script maintenance and lack of skills to automate. In this paper, we propose a model-based approach that works in conjunction with existing tools and techniques for automation. Our approach includes a recorder to record tests into a test model and generators capable of generating test scripts into popular architectures and platforms used in practice. We show through a study that our approach and tool took 30% lesser time to maintain scripts as compared to existing methods.