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April 2018
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Newsletter Issue 63
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written by Rex Black, Daniel Derr and Michael Tyszkiewic
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[Note: Test automation takes many
forms, and it doesn't always involve big budgets or big teams.
In honor of the completion of our ISTQB Advanced Test Automation
Engineer course, we're re-posting a classic article. Get ready
to go bananas on test automation with a dumb monkey who is smarter
than it seems!]
Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare has
been creating eDiarys on handheld devices since 1999. Arrowhead helps
pharmaceutical research and marketing organizations document
important information about how their products are being used in
patients' homes.
ePRO-LOG is Arrowhead's third
generation eDiary product. The primary design goal of ePRO-LOG is to
be able to rapidly deploy dairies used for data collection in
clinical trials and disease management programs.
A typical diary may include 100 forms
translated in 15 or more languages, and used in several locales. This
results in a large number of software builds and
configurations. As a result, we needed an automated test tool
to address potential risks and to automate common tasks.
The most important quality risks we
wanted to address were:
- Reliability
- Translation
completeness
- Functionality of UI
- Input error checking
- Verification of
requirements
We needed an automated test tool with
the following capabilities and features:
- Address defined risks
- Produce accurate
form-flow diagram
- Reduce tedium and
opportunity for error in manual testing
- Save effort
associated with manual testing for these risks
- Improve
time-to-market by reducing test cycle duration through 24x7
testing
- Provide auditable
documentation
- Handle any screen
flow or translation without custom test scripts (i.e., be
trial-independent)
- Be easy to implement
and cost effective
This is a case study in how we reduced
our risks and achieved our test automation objectives in just a few
months on a total tools outlay of $0.
Visit our website to
view this article in its entirety.
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