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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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william_roe
Super Contributor
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?

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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.

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      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")

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

         

        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")

        we create a function call for each gui object to find / refer to the object.

         

        so we'd have something like SetText( alert_email_textbox(), ' some text);  and then in an objects file we'd have

         

        function alert_email_textbox() {

            return alert_page().FindChild( new Array("ObjectType", "idStr"), new Array("Textbox", "AlertEMail"), FIND_DEPTH); 

        }