Automation & Test Execution

In this episode of the Art of Modelling Test Approaches, Rich Jordan considers how to shore up Automation & Test Execution by raising the percentage of automated tests at your organisation. Automation is crucial, yet only 15-20% of tests run by teams are actually automated (World Quality Report 2022). 

Your organisation can improve automation by aligning tooling to your teams' skills and framework. Using Test Modeller, you’ll build visual models that help all of your teams understand what your system does, and how it changes.  

That means, as the systems inevitably changes, the team is able to use Test Modeller to react to and envisage these inevitable changes at a model level. The models can also be used as test automation assets, generating automated test execution code inline with the latest system changes. 

At the organisational level, this avoids tooling proliferation, a main drain on cost and maintenance headaches. Test Modeller provides a unique solution to the problem of ‘which execution tool’, by allowing the use of any automation framework. This gives teams the ability to generate automation in the framework of their choice. Improving system understanding and generating automation test scripts from visual models.  

This segment is part of Art of Modelling: Test Approaches, with Curiosity Software Enterprise Solutions Architect, Rich Jordan. Drawn from expertise in Test Design, the series asks: What does a good test approach need to consider?