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Open Source Test Automation ROI

S.K. Muthusundar, Dr. Paul Rodrigues, D. Thara, Trilysa Anthea Titus

Abstract


The need of increasing the potential benefits and reliability of a project by re-usable Test Automation Framework coupled with open source tools that use the concept of Return on Investment (ROI).Which reduces the execution cost and time of testing cycle and maintenance effort thereby resulting in increased productivity by using additional test cases within a given schedule. In this paper we will discuss how the ROI calculation can also be achieved through TAF Selenium tool that is used to reduce the execution time and cost without any framework costs and optimum usage and uses discrete business keywords which are reusable. High ROI can also be achieved on the basis of cost, time and extensible. Using TAF the script development result will help increase the speed of test execution and provides maximum number of resources, increase productivity and ROI; it provides ease of script generation & management, concurrent, remote execution, test data generation and customized reports with screen shots.

Keywords


Test Automation Framework, ROI Calculation, Tool, Reusable, Driven Approach

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