During our vast experience in test automation consultancy we encountered a lot of challenges and our CEO and Head of Quality, Dan Dinca, is highlighting below few important aspects to be considered when starting implementing test automation in your project or company:
- Selecting right tool/framework
- Defining the test approach
- Automation skills available in the team or trainings needed
- How to integrate test automation to the big picture
- Budget for implementation and maintenance
- How to measure the test automation success
At IsoSkills we have the skills, experience and resources to define and implement a robust test automation strategy by ensuring this is matching your company goals and needs and it is based on latest technologies and market best practices. We are more than happy to do a proof of concept (POC) and help you on initiating test automation at project, unit or company level. An example of POC roadmap/timeline is below and this will be tailored based on project or company needs, coverage and complexity.
Few automation key benefits:
- Faster Feedback
- Reduced Business Expenses
- Testing Efficiency Improvement
- Earlier Detection of Defects
- Faster Time-to-Market
- Improved Accuracy
- Reliable in Results
- Reusability
We are listing below examples of deliverables included as part of the POC final report as well as next steps to develop/implement test automation further in your project/company.
Final report includes
- Demo session
- Findings, challenges
- Feasibility info about which test cases can be automated
- Proposal of necessary tooling and automation framework
- Test Automation approach
- List of the benefits you could achieve from implementing automation
Next steps
- IsoSkills can provide all the necessary resources for Test automation implementation
- Senior Test Automation specialist will own Automation Process Improvement initiative
- Work directly with your projects’ releases to help implement the automation and provide additional resources if needed
- Conduct workshops with projects regarding new automation processes
IsoSkills Oy offers to all companies an initial test assessment for free.
Approximately timing for this is 1-2 days, depending on the scale of the project(s) covered. Our senior test specialists will guide the customer through current status and findings and next steps to achieve the desired level of test automation in your project(s).
What does this take from the end customers?
Customers will approve the assessment plan as well sharing all the needed information with IsoSkills test specialists (access to the needed platforms and applications, documents, key stakeholders to be interviewed, etc.). During assessment execution, customers will support IsoSkills test specialists by fixing any issue that might arrive, answering queries related to assessed project(s), as well as scheduling the interviews with the key stakeholders.
Customers will review the assessment results and findings, provide comments and agree next steps with IsoSkills.
For more information, contact: Jaana Väänänen, Business Development & Sourcing Director, tel. 050-5253693 or jaana.vaananen(at)isoskills.fi
