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Test automation

In just a few years, test automation has become an essential part of functional, customer-oriented product development. In order to utilize organizations’ core competencies as effectively as possible, repetitive routine tasks must be handed over to computers.

Test automation enables an agile organisation and real-time quality control

Test automation brings quality assurance to configuration and implementation. When the requirements set for a product are linked to automatically executed test cases, software implementation and the fulfilling of requirements can be monitored in real-time. If automatic tests are also written in natural language, the entire development organisation may engage in an open discussion with the help of the requirements and the related automatic tests. This reduces misunderstandings and helps to react to changes much faster.

Robot Framework

The development of Robot Framework started at Nokia Networks in 2005 and in ten years it became the standard tool for organizations during the development and testing phase.

The strength of Robot Framework lies in the fact that automatically executed test cases are written in a reusable and intelligible form.

The tests are connected to the tested system using test libraries, ensuring that test cases can always be written in the same way regardless of the environment. Thus, the entire development organisation can use the same tool for test automation and writing uniform test cases.

A common solution for acceptance testing

Robot Framework is a generic application framework designed to be easily expandable and created from the very beginning specifically for acceptance testing and its automation. Robot expresses business requirements as test cases written in natural language, and actual testing measures are carried out using libraries that integrate different testing programs and technologies together to make the computer do what has traditionally been done manually by a tester.

It is easy to accept Robot Framework as the starting point and foundation on which to build full test automation, whether the tested software is a simple mobile app or a customer relationship management system consisting of multiple different programs.