Test Automation Magic: Pushing the Frontiers

The evolutionary cycle of test automation appears to have hit a plateau. Krishna Iyer and Mukesh Mulchandani believe it is time to push the frontiers again for another cycle of improvements. Together, they describe how you can improve your test automation, with results that others will see as sheer magic. They describe a number of cutting edge ideas including automatic documentation of manual test cases, algorithms that will select the best automation scripts to run when you don't have sufficient time to execute them all, visual modeling of test automation to create new scripts from existing ones in a fraction of the time, and automation frameworks that disappear after test cases are built. Krishna and Mukesh also challenge traditional automation ideas such as automating only when the application is stable. Drawing from their experience automating testing on large-scale financial systems, they showcase newer approaches including a radical and more effective way to evaluate tools for compatibility with your product.