{"id":1670,"date":"2016-12-13T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T12:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigniti.com\/blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2020-01-27T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T06:38:59","slug":"top-6-important-guidelines-for-test-automation-in-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/top-6-important-guidelines-for-test-automation-in-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 6 Important Guidelines for Test Automation in Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the tremendous growth in agile methodology, guidelines for test automation are specifically significant. While it is important to use effective techniques that yield in a high return on investment (ROI), such approach works only once one is aware of the numerous techniques available. Being mindful of various guidelines helps in narrowing down the most suitable technique for the current automation process.<\/p>\n
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Here we take a look at some of the top guidelines for test automation in agile environment.<\/p>\n
Another important point to keep in mind is to keep the testing process and the test data tool-agnostic. Essentially, this means that the selected tool for test automation should interfere with the process at a bare minimum, such that the process can be easily implemented and the code can be well-maintained. This also gives space to change your testing tool midway, which would not be possible if the tool had strong coupling with the test data.<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n Cigniti Technologies understands that test automation helps accelerate regression test efforts in a cost effective manner, and allows constantly unattended execution. Cigniti’s test automation framework (CTAF) is a tool agnostic testing solution for validating complex business processes. CTAF uses a keyword driven approach to help non-technical users validate business processes. CTAF has delivered 30% improvement in productivity and 40% reduction in test maintenance efforts in numerous test automation engagements.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the tremendous growth in agile methodology, guidelines for test automation are specifically significant. While it is important to use effective techniques that yield in a high return on investment (ROI), such approach works only once one is aware of the numerous techniques available. Being mindful of various guidelines helps in narrowing down the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,731,32],"tags":[105,636,645],"ppma_author":[3750],"authors":[{"term_id":3750,"user_id":24,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sajidkhan","display_name":"Sajid Khan","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6636b31ea7cf86f83ced30ec5bb83d95?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"http:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/","last_name":"Technologies","first_name":"Cigniti","job_title":"","description":"Sajid Khan, Director of Global Delivery at Cigniti Technologies, is a highly accomplished and forward thinking Global Delivery Director, possessing 18+ years of strong IT expertise, which includes handing global delivery teams working on various technologies, domains and methodologies. He has been instrumental in providing expert guidance and leadership to global teams in accomplishing and establishing innovative solutions for complex and challenging situations."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}