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IBM Rational Software Development KonferenzThe next generation is about to start…

Test Automation of SAP Implementation

Vinod Varma, Astra Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

Holiday Inn – München

4. - 5. September 2008

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Agenda

• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– Highlights

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Challenges and Solutions (Illustrative)

• Demo

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Agenda

• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– Highlights

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Challenges and Solutions (Illustrative)

• Demo

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Introduction

• About Astra

– The Software Engineering Company

– IBM Business Partner (Advanced)

– Services

• Software Engineering Consulting & Consulting

• IBM Rational tools implementation

• Outsourced Software Testing

– Documented case studies

• http://www-306.ibm.com/software/in/rational/astra_casestudy

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Introduction

• Why Astra?– Small but, highly skilled, focused and experienced team

– More than 20 years of industry exposure with more than 100 years of collective experience

– Experience from variety of applications, organization and verticals

– Team scalability though various internal academic initiatives

– A well balanced, demonstrated software engineering ecosystem in place

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Agenda

• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– Highlights

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Challenges and Solutions (Illustrative)

• Demo

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• About the Project

– Project involves

• Back office portal, for

– Maintaining information on

» Customer and

» Equipments with the customer

– Logging messages from customers, for services

– Assigning work orders for service engineers

• Mobile application used by service engineers

– Updating work progress

– Synchronizing with back office portal

Software Test Automation Project

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Software Test Automation Project

• A business process (Example)

– Placing a Work Order

• Select a customer

• Create or Select an equipment

• Create or Select a message

• Create a work order

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Software Test Automation Project

• A Scenario (Example)

– Placing a Work Order

• Login

• Search a customer by street and city

• Select a customer from the list

• Select an equipment with him

• Create a message

• Create a work order related to the message

Accomplishing this involve combination of test cases,

using specific set of data values

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Agenda

• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– Highlights

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Challenges and Solutions (Illustrative)

• Demo

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The Solution

• Test automation

– A testing project

– An automation project

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The Solution

• Test automation is a testing project

• Successful testing requires

– Testing with business perspective

– Testing

• As customers and users would

• Aligned with engineering principles

– Leveraging experience from industry

– Following open, scalable, practical, measurable process

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The Solution

• Test automation is an automation project

– Managing test assets

• Test plans

• Test suites

• Test cases

• Test scripts

– Establishing structure among test assets

• Test architecture

– Reusable assets

• Maintaining traceability

– Requirements

– Changes

» Defects

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Agenda

• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– Highlights

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Challenges and Solutions (Illustrative)

• Demo

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Highlights

• Business process modeling

– Helps to get the big picture and business perspective

• Provides context for the system requirements

– Understanding the business, not the automation part alone

• Better value proposition

• Easier adaptability to the live environment

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Highlights

• Requirement Management

– Clarity, classification and traceability

– Effective control on changes

– Enhanced quality, since better input controls

– Customer and end user perspective

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Highlights

• Traceability

– Connecting islands

– Connecting perspectives

Business Model

Requirement

Model

Test Cases

Defects

trace

trace

trace

trace

traceDesign Model

trace

trace

Features

Use cases

User Experience

Workload

UI Design

Database Design

...

TestScript

TestData

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Highlights

• Test Architecture

– Provides structure to test assets

– Enables reusability

– Enables automation

• Traceability from business models though requirements, test cases,

test scripts, versions, releases and defects

• Maintainability, with effective traceability and version control

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Highlights

• Project Management

– Iterative approach

• Continuous focus on risk, leading to better project success

– Effective control

• Measurable, objective and metric driven approach

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Agenda

• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– Highlights

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Challenges and Solutions (Illustrative)

• Demo

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The Process

• Open, scalable, practical and measurable process

Process Highlights

Classify and Document

Software Requirements

Assess

Testability

Setup Test

Environment

Create Test Plan

and Test CasesArchitect and

Design

Implement Test

Execute Test Analyse Test Results

Model Business

Processes

Analyze Problem

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The Process

• Execution

– Iterative model

• Balancing stakeholder concerns and priorities

• Continuous risk identification and mitigation

• Short feedback cycles

• Testing early and continuous

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Agenda

• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– Highlights

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Challenges and Solutions (Illustrative)

• Demo

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The Solution Framework

• Simplified picture

Test Suites and Shell script

User action script

SuperScriptReusable LibrariesSharedMap

Scripts organized module-wise in packages/folders

Corresponding to scenarios to be tested

Architect and

Design

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The Solution Framework

• Automation

– Extraction of test cases from requirements

• Implemented as Rational Functional Tester Plug-in

– Requirements managed in IBM Rational RequisitePro

– Test cases managed in IBM Rational ClearQuest Test Manager

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• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– Highlights

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Challenges and Solutions (Illustrative)

• Demo

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Challenges and Solutions

SNo Challenge Solution

1 Test automation tool selection IBM Rational Functional Tester

with SAP Plugin

2 Many scripts use more or less

same set of objects.

Shared object map

3 Dynamic data verification Tokenizing data from control for

identification and verification

4 Variety of ways to accomplish a

task

Modular scripts to cater to

variations

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Challenges and Solutions (contd…)

SNo Challenge Solution

5 Similar tasks to be accomplished in

various contexts

Reusable, modular script

6 Contexts, and variations in reuse Reusable, modular script

7 Variety of ways, with minor

variations, to accomplish a task

Reusable, modular script with

action based on dynamic data

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• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Highlights

• Demo

• Questions and Answers

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Demo

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Agenda

• Introduction

• The Project

• The Solution

– The Process

– The Architecture

– Highlights

• Demo

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