adisgee

 Profile Answers by adisgee 

• Aug 2nd, 2007

 

Hi,

The concept of modular testing (referring to setting up a test automation framework), could be stated somewhat as follows:

1. Assumption:
a. There is an AUT - application/system under test
b. You have 10 functional areas to be tested within the aut.
c. Each functional area/component has 20 test scenarios.
d. Each test scenario has 50 test scripts.

2. Modularisation of WinRunner code:
a. A single Test Driver to invoke all the automated testing
(This will decide which functional areas to test of the 10 - reading a simple excel file can help the driver determine which ones)
b. Approximately 10 functional drivers - named after the functional area
c. Approx 20 test scenario drivers for each functional driver
d. Approx 50 test scripts for each test scenario driver

3. Thus your call chain / test tree / hierarchy will look like:
Test Driver - Functional Driver - Test Scenario Driver - Test Script

You can experiment your framework along these lines and then decide how to pull data from data tables to then dump on to the system and perform desired verifications and validations.

Hope this answers your questions,

Happy automating,
Aditya.