Test Data For Test Automation

Automation tools like QTP, TestPartner, WinRunner and so on allow you to simulate user-interaction with a GUI. You define interaction scenarii once, the tools play it hundreds of time. During test runs automation tools often have to provide input data to the tested system. Thus, testers generally create CSV files containing values so that the tools can pick up input data when needed.

At the end of the day, what is actually tested depends on the content of input files as much as on the automation scripts.

Test automation needs quality test data

Imagine that you have to test an e-commerce website. You write a script to have your automation tool buys some items, together with an input file containing orderings. Question is: what do you put in this data file ? If you want to test that every item can be bought, you have to create a pretty big file ; if you want to test that every combination of items that match a promotional offer really triggers the offer, it becomes much more tricky...

Testers do not have time for manually creating data files that perfectly match their test objectives and, thus, systems are not tested as well as they could be. As you can see, building automation scripts will lead you half the way of an efficient test automation process. What you need to make the most of those automation scripts is a way to automatically create input data targeted to the test goals.

Automating input data production

What GEDIS Studio offers you is the ability to build those data thanks to its unique design-and-produce mechanism. You design business specific generators and you configure them to get test data dedicated to a given test objective. With GEDIS Studio, you will take total advantage of your automation tools.

Have a look on our case studies if you want to know more on producing test data for test automation scripts. You can also check-out the Community Edition of GEDIS Studio and request a trial license for the Enterprise Edition. At last but not the least, you can ask our team on the various test automation projects we participate with GEDIS Studio.

Follow the links to discover how GEDIS Studio can produce business specific test data for you: ATM transactions, Call Detail Records, Shopping Carts