This training is aimed at experienced test automation specialists and users who have already completed the “UFT | Basics” workshop. After completing the advanced training course, participants will be able to take a holistic view of test projects and objects in order to apply test automation effectively and efficiently. They will also be able to achieve a division of labor in the team through structuring and reusability and increase the planning and measurability of the creation, execution and maintenance phases of automated test cases.

Test automation has been an important building block in development projects in a wide range of companies and industries for years, but often presents a major challenge for specialist testers without programming knowledge.

Orientation

• Repetition of the most important concepts from the basic training course
• Comparison of previous experience, expectations and questions of all participants

Stable test runs

• Recognizing the causes of errors or warnings during test execution
• Identification of automation errors
• Elimination of runtime or configuration-dependent test aborts
• Functionality of object recognition
• Workarounds for various automation errors and error handling

Programmatic techniques

• Introduction to programmatic test automation techniques
• Writing, parameterizing and executing test scripts yourself
• Application of code templates for standardized test sequences
• Descriptive programming techniques as a replacement or supplement to the object repository

Collaborative work

• Management of script sources
• Making UFT test scripts accessible to your team
• Use of version control and source code management systems such as GIT
• Dealing with dependencies and documentation

Instruments and metrics

• Realistic estimation of effort and costs
• Overview of the qualitative stages of test automation from simple proof of concept to extensive expansion of the test framework

Data-driven test automation

• More efficient and faster processing with larger volumes and variations of test data
• Creation of data tables with useful UFT functions such as the Test
• Combination Generator or the option to connect to external test data sources

Modular structure of test cases

• Ways in which you can structure your tests in a meaningful modular way
• Resource-saving reuse of modules for test script creation
• Advantages and functionality of user-defined function libraries and shared object repositories
• Functions for increased maintainability of your test scripts

Questions and answers

• Dealing with specific issues
• Approaches and assistance
• Best practices and presentation of further supporting UFT functions