Ranjit Shewale

It is a challenge of any manager to track automation in the real context of automation. There are many ways to approach the whole tracking process. This paper proposes one such solution without discussing estimation and identifying the right automation tool. Instead it is targeted for managers, directors, process managers, and organizations wishing to better track their automation processes.

This generic template can be used to collect test metrics for a software project.

Throughout the project, a test manager or test lead must think in terms of how efficient his test team is performing. How is the team doing? How good are the efforts when factored with time already spent? Ranjit Shewale presents one approach that can be used for measuring the efficiency of the test team. This approach gives the efficiency in terms of units per hours in normalized form for a test project during any phase of the project.

This template to document system tests was used in a Web testing project. It is effective in terms of test metrics collection.

This article details the various automation scripting techniques and their pros and cons. It also comments on the impact of testing technique on the costs, programming skills, and maintenance.

Running recorded scripts in a test seldom helps in load testing. Parameterization (or Correlation) is needed for the script, and the same has been discussed with reference to the tool OpenSTA. OpenSTA is an open source tool that has the capacity to handle static as well as dynamic variable parameterization.

This article presents a case study on using open source tools for architecture testing of application servers for scalability. The ROI for using an open source tool such as OpenSTA can be substantial, given the cost of commercially available load test tools.

Testers have to cope with project pressures, learning requirements in a short time, documenting test cases, and executing the cases. Learn new ways to reduce documentation to allow more time for creating innovative test cases and actual testing.

The scripting directives apply to the SCL scripting performed using the Script Modeler of OpenSTA tool. OpenSTA, a test tool that follows a distributed software testing architecture based on CORBA, is designed to be used by performance test engineers.

OpenSTA is open Source software licensed under GNU General Public License. Refer the following URL: www.opensta.org.

This paper describes the metrics-based test-oriented approach used in a project that followed the prototyping software development life cycle for Web application development. This model, in addition to the V&V activities, also involves client verifications in some phases. The test oriented metric collection is a marked activity of the approach.

Companies execute projects but fail to record historical data of the projects that can be used for further estimation and improvements. This paper discusses the feedback loop that is executed using metrics and feeds essential information to the company, the managers/leads, and the project. This feedback can be used to access/improve the strengths of further projects and their estimation. This paper uses the collected metrics of a dummy project as a sample and comments on the same.

The metrics collected are more oriented towards testing phase that eventually can be used to create a test estimation sheet based on empirical approach.

This spreadsheet estimation sheet created on the basis of the metrics collected in a few projects using a particular technology. A sample estimation calculation is also documented.

The definition of "unit" changes in structural, object oriented, and Web scenarios; hence, the scope of testing changes as well. A few related views are outlined in this PowerPoint presentation.

This PowerPoint presentation includes a few things to consider before and during load testing. It also covers the requirements phase, which is missed at times in short time to market projects.

This paper presents a new approach to the validation of a database for a project using an automated approach and new technologies of testing OOT programs. Database schema validation is an integral part of the software test process and at times may need to be performed more than once. This process can be automated using an automation tool such as Silk that provides a simple API to interact with various databases. Newer object-oriented testing approaches such as regression Oracle reduce time and error for this task.