Build Robust Test Automation Solutions for Web Applications

摘要

Test automation scripts for web applications are often fragile and lead to a high rate of false positive errors, resulting in a large amount of analysis time and maintenance effort. This paper shares our experience in improving test automation scripts for web applications and documents successful lowering of false positive (Type I) error rate which consequently reduced analysis time and maintenance effort. Causes that make test automation scripts fragile are analyzed and solutions are discussed. Notable findings include great benefit to test automation by following simple rules upstream in the software development life cycle, such as the design phase and the development phase.