Test Automation Strategy & Implementation

After investing in a test automation tool, many companies expect quick ROI and unleash their QA/testing team on the development of test automation scripts. While this may appear to have initial success, the long-term outcome is typically suboptimal and test automation efforts often deteriorate over time, often requiring a substantial effort to maintain. Some primary reasons are:

• Lack of overall automation strategy
• Lack of plan for test script maintenance
• Inconsistent approaches within the team
• No test data strategy

Zenergy’s strategic test automation review with framework roadmap provides companies with a detailed review of twenty-eight factors that can affect test automation. Some factors are technology under test, manual test cases, resource skill sets,  and test data strategy as well as numerous others. The product of the review is a comprehensive report that details any gaps that will hinder test automation and recommendations to address those gaps. In addition, the report also outlines a test automation framework roadmap including the approach, timeline, and resources needed to implement test automation effectively.  

Upon presentation of the recommendations, Zenergy’s senior consultants work with clients to:

• Define the overall test automation approach
• Ensure consistency by implementing scripting standards
• Refine long-term approach to reduce maintenance
• Create an approach to handle dynamic objects
• Implement a test data strategy

When companies need assistance implementing the framework and performing the scripting, Zenergy provides skilled resources and management expertise to help them get completed in a timely manner. Zenergy can work with the companies' resources so knowledge transfer occurs during the project, or it can provide a turnkey solution and train the test automation resources who will be responsible for the test automation maintenance.

Zenergy’s automation consultants have a long history of consistently helping clients receive higher ROI on their tool investments. Contact us today to learn more.