Research And Implementation Of Hybrid Software Automation Test Framework

With the rapid development of information technology, software is used in every field of society. More and more people focus on how to improve the quality of software, so software testing which impenetrate whole process of software engineering becomes one of the most important ways for quality assurance. With the enlargement of software scope, the improvement of software complexity and the development of software testing, more and more tester is realizing that the trait that high costs, fussy and inefficient execution of manual test is not satisfy with the requirement now. In order to overcome these respects, automated testing is being introduced into software testing and becoming the direction of software test. The appearance of software automation test framework indicates that the technology of software automated testing is going to be mature. Automated testing will become more and more economical and efficient, and be more advantageous to be implemented maintained.This paper first introduces the background of task, history and actuality of software testing. Secondly, discuss the concept of automated testing and through the comparison with manual test to indicate the predominance and defect of automated testing. Thirdly, discuss conception of some software automation test frameworks, such as test script modularity framework, test library architecture, data-driven testing framework and keywords-driven testing framework. Then,use these frameworks for automated test and compare advantages and disadvantages among them. At last,this paper brings forward a hybrid software automation test framework which inherits the advantages of different software automation test frameworks. This framework adopts modular structure to organize test list, applies data-driven and keyword-driven technology to improve efficiency of test and reduce cost of script maintains.This paper mainly discusses the structure and design way of hybrid software automation test framework and expatiate the process of using this framework for testing in decision information management system. At last paper summarizes the advantage of hybrid software automation test framework and puts forward the principle of software automation test framework design.