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Strategies for Agile Software Testing Automation: An Industrial Experience

Collins, E. F.; Dias-Neto, A.C.; Lucena Jr, V. F

2012 • The 36th Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference - Workshop on Automated Software Test (AST 2012) • 42 citações

Resumo

Resumo

Testing Automation has been growing in software engineering. Many organizations are investing in automated testing in order to prevent defects and increase testing effectiveness during software development. In agile methodologies, this task is considered an important activity, considered the key of the agile testing. This paper presents three testing automation strategies applied to three different software projects adopting Scrum agile methodology. The results indicated positive agile practices to be considered when adopting testing automation strategy, such as: team collaboration, task distribution, testing tools, knowledge managements. The challenges, results, and lessons learned from this experience are also discussed.

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Palavras-chave

test automationagile testingScrumteam collaborationtask allocationtesting toolsknowledge managementlessons learneddefect prevention

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