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vthomeschoolmom
Super Contributor
9 years ago

who does your test automation - manual testers or programmer

I am asking if there are a lot of folks out there for whom this is considered an engineering function vs a manual tester's function. Thanks.
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DCat1223
Frequent Contributor

Currently I am the only person doing automated testing for our company.  I am not a developer.  Our company just started using TestComplete about 2 months ago.  Our IT Department is over 200 people, but our testing team is about 10 people.  Up until now we were an all manual shop.  I am the only one developing our automated tests.  I have no development experience, nor does anybody on our team.   

william_roe's avatar
william_roe
Super Contributor
9 years ago
DCat1223 wrote:

...Our IT Department is over 200 people, but our testing team is about 10 people. 

Do you have someone dedicated to merging namemapping files?

  • DCat1223's avatar
    DCat1223
    Frequent Contributor
    9 years ago

    No, #william_roe.  Nothing like that yet. 

    Currently we are a manual shop.  We are testing the waters with automation so I am really the only one doing it right now.  

    • chicks's avatar
      chicks
      Regular Contributor
      9 years ago

      At mye company we use automation for regression testing, and have dedicated QA Automation Engineers,   with development (coding) experience and testing experience.  Currently, the manual testers send us what test cases they feel should be automated for regression, and we report back with what the automation scripts cover.

       

      Note that we do not use keyword testing, or name mapping.

      • william_roe's avatar
        william_roe
        Super Contributor
        9 years ago
        chicks wrote:

        Note that we do not use keyword testing, or name mapping.

        I'm curious why you don't use keyword tests and name mapping. We use a mix of keyword and script and find only the keyword referebces refactor / rename when objects change (i.e. move). The same would be true for not mapping. I can't image managing references such as:

         

        Sys.Browser("chrome").Page("http://localhost/CMWebTest/Go/?p=/CMWebTest/Crib/Properties/1").Panel("primaryWrapper").Section("primaryContent").Frame("t_cmwebtest_crib_properties_1_content").Section("actionWrapper").Section("actionContent").Panel(0).Form("mainForm").Panel("partialCribProperties").Panel("partialCribProperties_CC").Panel("partialCribProperties_C0").Panel(0).Article(0).Panel(0).Panel(6).Panel(1).Table("AlertEMailAddress_ET").Cell(0, 1).Table("AlertEMailAddress").Cell(0, 0).Textbox("AlertEMailAddress_I")