Paper Info
Title
Software Test Automation practices in agile development environment: An industry experience report
Abstract
The increased importance of Test Automation in software engineering is very evident considering the number of companies investing in automated testing tools nowadays, with the main aim of preventing defects during the development process. Test Automation is considered an essential activity for agile methodologies being the key to speed up the quality assurance process. This paper presents empirical observations and the challenges of a test team new to agile practices and Test Automation using open source testing tools integrated in software projects that use the Scrum methodology. The results obtained showed some important issues to be discussed and the Test Automation practices collected based on the experiences and lessons learned.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IWAST.2012.6228991
Automation of Software Test
Keywords
Field
DocType
program testing,public domain software,software prototyping,software tools,Scrum methodology,agile development environment,automated testing tool,defect prevention,industry experience report,open source testing tool,quality assurance process,software engineering,software project,software test automation,agile testing,software testing,test automation,testing tools
Agile testing,Systems engineering,Agile Unified Process,Test Management Approach,Lean software development,Extreme programming practices,Agile software development,Agile usability engineering,Empirical process (process control model),Engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1821-1
11
0.96
References 
Authors
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eliane Figueiredo Collins1110.96
de Lucena, V.F.2182.89