Enterprises today are leaning towards bringing agility into their organizations as it brings transparency, flexibility with requirements, visibility, and speed to market. It is therefore imperative to pursue an optimal cost-effective and highly-productive Test Automation strategy that supports and drives the 'Agile Organizational Mindset'. Most organizations have a technology roadmap that they follow and build products on. The technical roadmap could comprise different types of platforms and tools on which new or future products are crafted.

Many of the automation tools do not support a variety of applications built using different technologies while the automation testing frameworks may not support multiple testing tools or include provisions for centralized Manual/Automated test case execution and management. Tools and platforms that do not provide support for rapid and effective test case development, planning, management and governance, pose a challenge for dynamic agile test environments.

The Digital Group's Quality Assurance with Rapid Automation (QARA) is an integrated platform that supports declarative, zero coding functional test automation design, management, planning, and execution along with built-in reporting capabilities. The QARA Enterprise platform is built on open source Selenium and offers excellent automated test tracking, management and reporting. This enables centralized and version-controlled test catalogues for a range of external interfaces, yields, licenses as well as workforce cost reductions while significantly boosting productivity in an agile-iterative product development lifecycle.

Discover an Agile Platform with QARA Enterprise

QARA Enterprise automation framework is an integrated, enterprise agile-ready platform that provides a single management layer over several mature open-source test automation tools, namely Selenium, White, Appium and other open source frameworks. It also enables the centralized test case storage to popular version control systems and bug tracking tools such as JIRA and in-built support for industry-standard databases of your choice.

QARA Enterprise supports remote test execution, grid execution, multi-browser and multi-platform testing, test scheduling, test case management and test data preparation, along with JIRA and Team Foundation Server (TFS) integration. QARA also supports testing with Angular JS, BrowseEmAll, BrowserStack and Grid Execution, giving users the ease of handling tests using just one platform.

QARA is tailor-made for organizations that wish to convert their manual test cases to automation scripts with a lean automation engineering team and want to dramatically reduce the testing cycle time without compromising on the quality of test scripts, and QARA makes it possible with its automatically generated test scripts. It presently generates Selenium C# which can help the testing departments service larger client needs and focus on improved team productivity. CIOs can now vouch for QARA to suit their automation needs as it works seamlessly with products developed using Sun, Microsoft and all open source technologies.

Benefits of QARA Enterprise

• Keyword Driven Framework with user-friendly keywords
• Library function support to perform conditional checks and looping
• Reduced dependencies on subject matter experts and tool experience
• Reduced test data setup time with increased quality and reliability
• Reduced defects and faster time to market
• Faster realization of Return on Investments (ROI)
• Increased flexibility to reach multiple target devices and browsers
• Significant cut down in regression and integration test cycles
• Reduced (nearly 60%) manual regression and testing efforts

So, that was a quick look at how an advanced automation testing tool like QARA Enterprise comes with the capabilities to help QA teams achieve their testing goals and boost efficiency & productivity and increase test coverage.