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Functional Testing - A SOA & BPM Approach

Authors:
William Gontier
Franck Hennequin
Fabien Lloansi

Keywords: Functional Testing; Test Automation; Zero Code; Cost Optimization; Service Oriented Architecture; Business Process Modeling

Abstract:
In this paper, a new approach to automate software reliability verification and validation activities is described. The project has been developed focusing on functional testing of digital television and network home appliances. Nevertheless, at this stage of the project, the developed approach has proven to be sufficiently generic to support a wide range of domains and so it can be of interest for people dealing with functional test automation in a wide industrial range. Most commonly used approaches followed by the industry to automate functional testing require important efforts and skilled human resources in software development to build large sets of specific scripts. Consequently, these approaches cannot be conducted by professionals without programming skills since they are not sufficiently involved in the design, development and maintenance of the tests scenarios. We present in this paper an innovative strategy to overcome the main difficulties. We also show how this new strategy based on a zero-code approach can offer new exciting roles to test team members and deliver an optimized cost structure of test automation activities.

Pages: 60 to 65

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4316

ISBN: 978-1-61208-370-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014