Test Automation Best Practices
- For successful test automation, management support is essential.
- Setup dedicated team instead of allocating a team for automation testing during spare time.
- If your team is new for test automation, then go for a pilot project and get the confidence.
- Prioritize which test cases to be automated.
- Collaborate effectively with developers.
- Smoke tests are a good place to begin with automation.
- Don’t automate unstable functionalities.
- Make Your Test Automation Benefits Visible to Management.
- Use BDD framework to create readable and understandable tests.
Standards
- Use proper naming conventions for variables, class, methods, folders, tests, and utilities.
- Implement setup and tear down scripts.
- If your team is new for test automation, then go for a pilot project and get the confidence.
- Reuse tests instead of duplicating it.
- For Java8 users: Use Lambda expressions to concise your code.
- Write declarative BDD scenarios. Never write like “I click” & “I enter”.
- Tag your tests and features
- Tests should be independent and shouldn’t depend on order to run consistently.
- Implement the Page Object Pattern
