A Maintainability Spreadsheet-Driven Regression Test Automation Framework

A complete browser-based software is need to develop a separate complicated script or some scripts with existing automation testing tools. The paper proposed a regression test automation framework to implement automation test without script development during the test development. The form, data and control spreadsheet should be defined by test developer. The test automation framework provided a series of function interface to accomplish test execution. The definition spreadsheet is easy to maintain in novel framework. In regression test, testers merely need to modify the related definition in spreadsheet. The detailed case is given used with framework and support by mainstream automation test tool.

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