Never Maintain a Script Again Without Fallback Accessors and Self healing Strategies to mitigate maintenance effort 

Software quality engineers spend a significant amount of time on test script maintenance. This impacts the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process.

Research varies but the consensus is that on the average day, an SQA spends 40-60% of their time doing script maintenance. About a third of organizations do proactive maintenance, that is the agile team identifies when code changes will invalidate existing test scripts, and they update the scripts as the code is being written. But for most organizations, too much time is spent reacting to unexpectedly failed scripts.

In this webinar, we are going to look at the causes of script maintenance, such as frequent updates and modifications to applications, more complex applications with more use cases, and dynamic applications where there are unlimited use cases. We’ll also look at strategies to mitigate maintenance effort including creating modular, reusable test scripts, and clear communication to dev and test as requirements evolve.

We'll look at modern test automation technologies and see how many script maintenance tasks can be addressed. AI is on everyone’s mind, and it has a critical role to play in keeping tests up to date. We’ll see how test scripts can adapt at run time, how scripts can self-heal and we’ll see an innovative new approach to minimizing script maintenance scripts that automatically adjust to changes in the application’s UI or logic, thus minimizing downtime and maintenance work.