A New Zealand based customer in the heath care domain embarked on a journey of migrating their Delphi-based products to Microsoft technologies. The products use specialized GUI controls that are not recognized by the typically popular tools. The company was keen to embark on automation right from the early stage of migration. And the budget to develop automation was tight.
We conducted Proof-Of-Concept (POC) to identify the tool that would support automation for both Delphi and VB.Net. We discovered that most popular tools were indeed not compatible with the developed product. The POC concluded that Test Complete did support both Delphi and VB.Net with a few constraints. It was very cost effective however but not user friendly. We convinced the management of our decision. The project started off with us identifying test cases which could be automated. Seven modules were automated and demonstrated.
We developed reusable Keyword Driven Framework for the client. Both individual test case execution and batch run was possible just by choosing the test cases. STAG provided detailed demo of the framework to the in-house QA team.
However some of the test cases chosen for automation were not complete. We validated the test cases, made the necessary changes and then initiated the scripting. The automation work was divided between the STAG and customers team. As we automated the test cases, we guided and trained the customer’s team to automate.
The result – By automating 326 test scenarios, the testing time was cut down from 80 hours to 12 hours! We saved the customer significant money spent on the tool, but more by enabling them to release the product to market ahead of schedule!