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J. B. Rajkumar ¹, K. Vivekanandan ²

Affiliations
1 Wipro Technology, Dallas, Plano, Texas, 75024, US
2 Department of Management, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 641 046, IN

Abstract

In recent years, Enterprise applications are becoming more complex, heterogeneous and distributed. The real application business logic is no longer found only in the User Interface and the database as in the Client/Server, but now extend across multiple middle tiers and with different technologies. As the businesses are trying to become agile in order to respond quickly to changing business needs, the need of automated "End to End" testing becomes stronger. The End-to-End testing refers to the concept of testing at all point of access in an end-to-end solution. It combines functionality and performance testing at the component, service and system levels. In this paper we present a customized QTP (Quick Test Professional) framework for testing and validation of both functional and non-functional behavior of our web-based applications. This framework provides end-to-end testing of different layers (Presentation layer, Database layer and web service layer with other Business process). The main concept of this automation framework is to reduce the cost of manual testing and improve the effectiveness of end-to-end testing in Agile environment. In this paper, we described how we implemented Agile Automation in our complex project environment which has more than a hundred interfaces.

Keywords

End-To-End Testing, Automated Test, Framework, Agile, Scrum, Web Services.

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J. B. Rajkumar ¹, A. Senthilkumar ²

Affiliations
1 Wipro Technology, Bangalore, IN
2 MCA Department of RVS College of Computer Applications, Coimbatore, IN

Abstract

Today's Information Technology (IT) manager is under ever-increasing pressure to deliver results - in the form of applications that drive improvements to the bottom line - even while IT budgets are being significantly slashed. Agile methodologies such as eXtreme Programming (XP), SCRUM and Feature-Driven Development strive to reduce the cost of change throughout the software development process Agile development is hard and requires a great deal of discipline. Distributed development is harder still and requires yet more resolve to stay on track. Even teams working in the same room take a long time to form. When distributed this formation takes even longer. Plan to keep teams together or change them slowly over time to maximize your investment in them. Provide distributed teams with the right tools to work as effectively as possible and remove as many of the barriers created by distribution as possible. Expect to experiment with how you use these tools, be it video conference, conference phones, collaboration software, or work item tracking tools. The primary advantage to organizing a project around collaborating collocated teams is that it simplifies the day-to-day work of most team members. This paper talks about how to get the best results from the distributed team by using right tools.

Keywords

Agile, Communication Tools, Distributed Environment, Scrum.

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