Automation Strategic Assessment
A leading provider of voice-directed hardware and software solutions contacted Alliance for guidance. The client wanted to implement end-to-end automation for testing of flow from hand-held voice activated hardware devices to the enterprise application suite. The goal of the testing project was to define a return on investment business case for automation using a prototype-based approach.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
- Improve quality, faster time to market while reducing overall costs of testing.
- End-to-end System Regression Testing to decrease defect seepage into implementations.
- Develop Lights out Test Lab to execute test scripts in an automated fashion.
ALLIANCE’S APPROACH
- Setup a team with in-depth experience in various automation tools and speech enabled systems.
- Analyzed automation approaches tried by the client in the past and their strength and weaknesses.
- Developed knowledge acquisition document and current state document to ensure that the team understands the product well.
- Designed matrix for evaluation of key features against a set of open source and COTS automation tools.
- Established a test lab offshore to evaluate the product against various open source and COTS automation tools.
- Created POC using HP QC and HP QTP solution to demonstrate the proposed automation architecture and solution.
- Created automation framework and guidelines document for the proposed automation architecture and solution.
- Identified functional changes in the enterprise platform and embedded hand-held voice device software for supporting nights-out lab.
- Prepared a ROI-based business case for automation.
- Provided a proven process and governance template to successfully implement testing automation.
- Provided roadmap for implementation of automation.