Both commercial and open source tool sets may be utilised to achieve the required business outcomes. Fit for purpose toolsets will be applied with JK Vine Consulting working together with the client to ensure an appropriate automation strategy is adopted and agreed upon prior to building of any such artefacts.

Test Automation: PLAN Phase

• Review and analysis of automation opportunities
  • Identification of key laborious and/or repetitive tasks
  • Review of testing and business priorities
  • Early test management involvement
  • Budget and time constraints
  • Assess common benefit areas for automation
    • Functional test regression and/or progression suites
    • Data migration validation robots
    • Environment shakeout and health check routines
    • Data manufacturing in bulk and/or functional test data preparation
    • Functional audit checks
    • Test harnesses and/or stubs
• Adoption of an appropriate automation strategy
  • Establishment of automation objectives
  • Alignment with business objectives, drivers and priorities
  • Resource requirements immediate and future
  • Structure and reuse capability
  • Formalisation of standards and version control
  • Handover and documented toolset
  • Review and recommendation of fit for purpose toolset/s, open source or commercial , dependent on budget and intellectual property retainment and client resource skill set
    
    

Test Automation: BUILD & RUN Phases;

• Key principles considered by JK Vine during the build phase include:
  • Return On Investment via
    • Modularized and re-useable components
    • Build for low expertise adoption of execution of automation artefacts
    • Ease of maintenance via standards and conventions
    • Compliance to Enterprise standards where applicable
    • Ease of execution use and client reuse capability
    • Automation artefacts version control
  • JK Vine Consulting create and run corresponding automation suites utilising automation tooling based upon the best fit for the client.