HTP resident, Applied Systems Ltd.,  expert in the field of automated testing, presented a system for automating all routine testing activities at The Third International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID 2011), held on the 23rd – 29th of October, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.

Valery Safronau and Vitalina Turlo, Applied Systems Ltd., presented a solution to a very popular problem within IT companies: ”automated testing”, often a misleading term in IT industry.

Automated testing generally refers only to running automated test scripts, while a number of routine activities related to test execution, such as  setting up testing environment, launching tests, reporting defects in a bug tracking system, generating reports are carried out manually by testers. The proper name for such automation is “quasi-automation”. Achieving real automation of these routine tasks will help IT organizations to gain great efficiency.

Applied Systems Ltd. has found the solution – a system for automated testing control, which enables the automation of all testing-relating activities. The system architecture includes sample interfaces, key system components, and interactions between them and their functionality. The idea is based on the integration of customer’s testing tools under a common UI via their APIs, namely file server, build machine, versioning control system, virtualization server, bug tracking system, and test automation tools.