Creating you own Automation Tool

It seems like everyone wants or needs to automate their manual testing and for a variety of reasons. Companies will go out and spend thousands of dollars to buy an off-the-shelf tool only to find the tool sitting on the shelf years later. So why spend the money on a tool that is not being used. With the enormous amount of free tools available why not use them. Why not build your own automation tool that is fully customizable.

This class will detail the process of creating your own automation framework. The framework will allow you to plug in products that need to be tested. The automation framework contains detailed logging and records test results into a relational database. It also is completely data and action driven. Testers can change the setup, execution, clean up, and/or expected results verification without changing a line of source code.

The class will walk you through the creation of such a framework using our own automation framework as a living-breathing example. The class will also demonstrate the return of investment of using a single framework that can execute automated tests across multiple products.

People taking this class need to have a software development background.

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