Automation

The Objective

To automate critical end-to-end business processes for mobile and API, Singlife aims to cut down the time to market for new features.

Although both automated and manual testing have contributed considerably to effectively ensuring a product's quality, with more businesses choosing an agile development approach, the breadth of automation has increased. There is a growing demand for more automated areas, more technologies to optimize processes, and more test engineers to be educated for this position. A test automation process should always be planned; otherwise, it will grow into a large suite that will be difficult to maintain and manage.

The Challenge

The Solution

The automation testing solution providers maintain a balance between the test automation challenges and an ideal software test automation framework to create their own open source-based test automation solution.

The major features of the test automation framework include mobile and web interface for test authoring, test execution, and result gathering; open-source tools for application automation, page object pattern, remote test execution for parallel execution; pluggable GitLab integration for CI/CD. By leveraging this framework successfully, enhanced test automation efficiencies are bought in, and test productivity and coverage of various clients are improved.

The framework for Singlife was designed with a limited line of code for smooth execution and reusability. This helps them to offer breadth and depth in automation. The test automation framework is largely used for functional testing although variants for other fields to test like content digitisation testing and localisation testing have also been used.