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How to Overcome Test Smells in an Automation Environment

Authors:
Mesut Durukal

Keywords: cloud services; asynchronous microservices; test automation; test smells; robustness.

Abstract:
This paper presents the most common test smells and their prevention methods in a test automation framework. In this scope, the necessity for test automation is discussed and the most probable test smells in a test automation framework are discussed. Possible solution methods to handle test smells are presented and their advantages are evaluated as per the obtained results. Presented methods are also applied in the test activities of a big project, which is a cloud-based open IoT operating system and consists of microservices.

Pages: 24 to 30

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: November 24, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4316

ISBN: 978-1-61208-755-9

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 24, 2019 to November 28, 2019