Is designing test for an entire business scenario a time-consuming process?
Business Process (BP)
– a BP should be well-documented written at a level that can be script.
The BP should be understandable by people not familiar with business.
It should be sufficiently detailed. If possible we can have Mercury
Screen Recordings (MSR), Navigational flow etc.
Data – The input data
required for executing the BP should be reusable. If it is not reusable,
sufficient set of data should provided for automating the BP. For most
of the finance modules data are not reusable.
Business Process should be complete, correct and
accurate. Verifying BP completeness and correctness takes a lot of time,
better to start off with these steps in mind as verification time
should be used to ensure the quality of the scripts instead of verifying
the quality of the BP. Don’t assume anything, design the test cases so
that any person can run it or execute it. Design the test cases so that
any person can understand what steps are to be validated.
Generally speaking, the more user
involvement a BP requires the less desirable it becomes for automation.
Though scripts build during development process are executed
successfully, they are liable to fail during regression execution. The
common errors and solutions can be summarized as:
Wrong Data is being used:
Most of the time the script fails due to a mismatch between the data
displayed in application and the data stored in Data Table. The solution
for this is to change the incorrect value in the Data Table.
Script Flow has changed due to a new build or a new data:
if this is the case we need to modify the existing script to add/remove
the necessary steps. This is not acceptable because we are automating
scripts with the same process. This may represent delays in our delivery
date.
The script is running with a different user:
The solution is to use the same user that we were using during the
development phase or give the new user the same privileges that the user
utilized during development had.
Data is burned: If this is the case we need to get or create new data in order to execute the script.
Are your scripts backward compatible i.e., can they run in lower versions?
Scripts execution in lower version of QTP: The other major
problem faced in scripts are not backward compatable.ie.., scripts build
in upgraded version of quick test professional like 9.2,cannot be
executed in 9.0 or lower versions. This problem can be overcome by using
BCIE (Bushiness component Import and Export) tool. Using this tool we
can import the reusable component from higher version of QC and export
it to lower version of QC. Scripts are then compatible with lower
versions.
Does Subject Matter Experts require technical knowledge?
Even though creating Business Processes Test
Script using accelerators might seem like a simple task, there are
multiple factors and caveats that need to be taken into account.
1.The initial Components base might prove complete for some BP’s, but
there will surely be a need to create new components in order to
complete all the scripts.
2.Though the UI Scanner automatically generates the required components,
it might be required to manually modify the QTP code, or even to
manually create a whole component.
3.VB Script knowledge is welcomed, since sometimes, there might even be
the need to create new functions in the libraries, or modify the
existing ones. It is always better to have a technical architect in a
project dedicated to handle Libraries, tool installation, debug and
trouble shooting. A technical architect should have considerable
knowledge of library architecture and descriptive programming
understanding, should understand relationship between Accelerators
libraries and Business Process Testing. The responsibilities of the
technical architect would be to provide the team with wrappers and
Are accelerators only for ERP applications?
Accelerator projects are not restricted to only ERP applications like
SAP, PeopleSoft,Seibel and Oracle. It can be customized for application like Metavance, web based application like SAP web portal by our technically expertise development team.
