Establishing a Scalable Test Automation and Traceability Framework for Enterprise Software Development Platforms
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Enterprise software, Quality assurance, Continuous integration, Defect tracking, Requirements traceability, Behavior driven development, Test automation.Abstract
Software platforms used by enterprises require effective quality assurance practices to be taken to ensure that they remain reliable and compliant throughout development life cycle. The design and application of scalable verification and validation framework is presented in this paper. The requirements management, test planning, automated testing, defect tracking, and traceability are linked in the framework as one co-ordinated system. It interconnects requirements, development artifacts, test assets and quality records to allow teams to know about all the validation coverage. In the paper, an automated integration testing capability and a behavior driven testing architecture, which enhance the maintainability, reusability and speed of execution of tests are also introduced. The architecture was developed and experimented using geographically dispersed teams of engineers. Findings indicate that the quality of releases, compliance of processes and productivity of validation activities have improved. The paper defines the structure of the architecture, the traceability model, the test technique, and the results of the research were experienced in four release cycles. These results confirm the point that automation, traceability and quality governance are effective when implemented as a set of initiatives rather than considered as separate processes.
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