Building an automated regression solution

As an automation engineer, you are charged with creating automated test scripts using such languages as Tcl, Perl, or Python. Often you must automate the most challenging test cases and support the automation needs of other testers in your organization. Your day-to-day challenges include:

• Manually building and maintaining the shared test libraries, tools, and regression infrastructure
• Creating tests that can run in a "lights out" regression system
• Building robust, easily maintainable test cases
• Employing abstraction techniques to guard against minor device and software changes
• Providing assets, such as procedures and routines, for other testers to leverage

How will Fanfare solutions help me do my job better and faster?

iTest® is a commercially supported tool that enables regression testers to increase their contribution to automation. It enables you to run tests at night, as well as perform automatic reporting, parsing, and abstractions. iTest also provides easy script maintenance from release to release.

With iTest you gain the functionality needed to reduce the backlog of test cases to be automated, so you can focus on the more challenging aspects of test automation.

Which iTest edition is right for me?

iTest Team enables seasoned feature testers and engineers with scripting experience to build fully automated test cases with pass/fail criteria, quickly and easily. These robust, easy-to-read, and transferable test cases can be used by other QA teams to speed up replication, defect resolution, and regression testing.

iTest Enterprise enables expert testers and automation teams to create fully automated test cases with pass/fail criteria and powerful abstraction technology. These sophisticated test cases can be run against numerous testbeds, quickly updated for design changes, and immediately used for "lights out" regression testing at the end of the automation assembly line.

Highlights

• Create and maintain portable test cases by abstracting out the device and testbed so the same test can be run against multiple releases or other devices
• Easily deal with changes to product responses using response maps created and maintained with an unmatched point-and-name parsing technology
• Augment existing automation infrastructure with Fanfare parsing and mapping technology
• Save Fanfare test cases into a Tcl format that can be directly imported into in-house systems