A Survey of Test Automation Architectures

How are you going to develop and run 1000 test cases automatically and unattended? Commercial test automation tools often get a bad rap because many organizations never get past the record/playback/fail cycle of frustration. These tools, however, can contribute to your testing needs; first you have to understand what has to be done to make them work. Jamie Mitchell outlines several automation architectures that are being used successfully today and discusses the pros and cons of each. Find out which framework or combination of several frameworks will be successful in your environment.

• Review of commercial test automation tool categories for functional testing
• Automation frameworks to support different testing needs
• What it takes for automated test cases to run robustly