Synechron’s expert QA automation team utilizes its deep technical and domain expertise to devise an automation strategy that reduces overall testing cycle durations as well as overall cost of maintenance of test automation assets. A close watch on the industry trends in test automation highlights the fact that the market has rightly moved to create products and tools that implement the features of business processes and reuse. This not only reduces dependency on the extremely acute resource pool of automation experts, but also ensures that the test coverage is maximized. To enhance the entire test automation process, the QA experts at Synechron perform various proofs of concepts and study multiple tools to choose the best fit and provide cost effective solutions to the customers. Our experts do not limit their horizons to standard market test automation tools; we regularly create custom tools and harnesses as necessary to exercise various components of the system under test.

Synechron’s Automation Approach:

Synechron’s QA-CoE has created its own IP with the development of the Accelerator– STEP (Synechron Test Engineering Program) to ease the structure of automation and tune it as per the customers’ requirements. STEP is a family of automation frameworks, which is built on top of the tools such as QTP, Silk, Test Complete and Selenium. STEP enables the subject matter expert to be an integral part of the test automation process in almost the same way as a technical automation expert.

Key Concepts:

• Platform and tool independent test case modeling.
• Business abstraction layer using control keywords.
• Division of labor.
• Enhanced reusability.

Enablers:

• Business element modelers
• Robust scripting engines for multiple platforms
• Keyword function libraries
• Independent reporting engine

Automation Architecture

Benefits/Differentiators:

• Flexibility to execute the test suite on cross browsers and multiple environments
• Excellent return on investments from the project initiation stage
• Wide purview of coverage
• Cost effective quality deliverables
• Post delivery responsibilities

Tools:

Custom Scripts (AVS, Java, .NET), QTP, Selenium, SilkTest, JUnit, NUnit, RFT, Test Complete, HTTPUnit, Watir, Test Partner, Telerik Test Studio, Egg Plant, Fitnesse, Silk4Net