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OPTiiM: Ensuring Consistent and Efficient End-to-end Test Automation

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Industry is witnessing an increased demand to retain and grow market share through product and pricing differentiation. Many companies implement automation techniques, including test automation,with the ultimate goal of achieving competitive advantage through resource optimization, faster time-to-market and improved efficiency. However, organizations face various challenges during the automation process and are unable to successfully implement the automation strategy. OPTiiM Business Solution A.S, headquartered in Istanbul, addresses these challenges through its test automation services. “There are two main challenges in test automation: the generation of test scripts and their maintenance. Creating a well-designed framework is the foundation of OPTiiM Test Automation (OPTiiMIZE) Services. As part of our OPTiiMIZE Services, our clients receive an innovative framework including proprietary code libraries that provide a production line that is optimized for quick script generation and effortless maintenance,” says Levent Ozalp, Founder & CEO, OPTiiM - New Frontier Group.
OPTiiM Test Automation (OPTiiMIZE) Services begin with the analysis phase during which the company listens to its clients’ test automation requirements. Upon further investigation, the team produces a Technical Optimization Analysis which aims at optimizing its clients’ initial requirements. Working closely together with its clients, OPTiiM then agrees on an implementation strategy that can best serve their organizational needs. Based on this strategy, the company prepares a custom test automation framework that serves as the basis for its clients’ test automation needs. All subsequent steps are processed as a part of this framework ensuring a consistent, repeatable and efficient end-to-end test automation process.

Customized Test Automation Framework
“The key differentiating factors of our OPTiiMIZE Services are the custom-designed test automation frameworks and the accompanying training and enablement programs. At the end of our engagements, clients are handed over a deployment that encourages and even enforces test automation best practices. This ultimately leads to an automation infrastructure that has structural integrity and is waterproof against potential future changes,” shares Daniel Lorer, Co-founder, OPTiiM. The company takes the best of an organization’s existing practices, synthesizes it with its own wealth of experience and implements the result in the most stringent of quality standards. Being a solution-oriented company, OPTiiM has expertise in a range of test automation products and always advises its clients on the tool(s) that can meet their requirements best. However, it commonly deploys HP UFT as part of its OPTiiMIZE Services, as it allows the creation of GUI and API test automation from within a single tool and supports most technologies.
OPTiiM not only delivers a solution that meets customers’ immediate needs but in addition, ensures that they have a solution with which they can maintain and even repeat their success. At the heart of this philosophy lies the successful implementation of test automation frameworks that enable the rapid creation of test automation scripts that are tailored to be stable and easily maintainable. OPTiiM custom designs its solutions based on its clients’ specific needs and the selection of test automation tools is a part of that process. The company’s solutions have helped its clients build value, manage risks, reduce their time-to-market while ensuring high levels of quality.
While, previously, test automation had been a nice-to-have luxury, with the advent of game-changing agile development approaches, test automation has now become a must-have testing methodology. Furthermore, the tectonic shifts caused by the mobile revolution have left their fair share of disruption on the testing world. The extensive range of platforms and devices, the head spinning speed of short release cycles have all made it virtually unmanageable for mobile apps to be manually tested. For these reasons, test automation will continue to be an important focus point for enterprises and they will always look up to companies like OPTiiM.

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Holistic test strategy

The main reason behind incomplete and inappropriate testing is the lack of a holistic test strategy. This leads to a poor test plan which, in turn, results in scripts that are arduous and time consuming to develop and almost impossible to maintain.OPTiiM believes that test automation must be perfect, as one cannot claim to have full test automation unless the automation platform works perfectly, i.e. reliably and effectively. OPTiiMIZE Services, therefore, offer an end-to-end solution that allows for the rapid creation of test automation scripts that are, from the start, designed to be stable and easily maintainable at the same time.It is essential for the creation of defects, logging and handling of test execution errors, to be part of the automation process. In order to accomplish this, the integration of automation with defect tracking tools is the key.

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