Decision making dashboard for agile test automation development

Abstract

Automatic testing enables faster iterations and reliable test outputs which leads to the delivery of a high-quality product. Test Automation in Agile development improves efficiency of development and faster execution, Reusability of test component on Repetitive nature of tasks, Higher test coverage, and helps to reduce overall testing cost to provide a high quality product. In Agile development environment, developers and quality engineer’s work together and in every sprint and releases set of features to the product decided by product owners. Quality engineers in agile team covers manual testing and test automation for the features within the sprint allocated. In most of the companies agile team tracks and display manual testing progress, bugs and defects found, test coverage, test cases for the new features developing but not the test automation progress and results. In some of the startups and even in the multinational level companies, in their product teams, quality engineers doesn’t have any proper mechanism to provide test automation results in proper way. Most of the quality engineers has to execute the test automation scripts manually on the local machine and give sprint updates and test automation progress updates on based on the console results. It’s hard to explain and show the results and test automation coverage on console for the offshore product owners and the team. As a solution this application will help project managers, business analysts and offshore product owners and the whole team to make decisions based on the test results within the sprint. This proposed application will help quality engineers to update the completed test automation results on the dashboard within the sprint so management and the agile team will be able to make decisions whenever necessary. And quality engineers does not need to execute in local machine and give updates to the management and the team as it’s already updated on proposed dashboard. This proposed application would function as a decision making dashboard using test automation results for the small scale agile projects