What is Business Process Testing?

Business Process Testing
BPT stands for Business Process Testing which enables Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to design QA tests early in the development cycle and in a script-free environment.

It consists of:
•Reusable Business Components
•Business Components converted into Business process test

»Business components are reusable units that perform a specific task in a business process. (for example – Add to Cart)
»A business process tests is a scenario comprising of business components (for example - Place an Order)


How does BPT work?
»Business Process Testing is based on the creation, implementation, and running of business components in business process tests using the
•Quality Center Business Components,
•Test Plan,
•and Test Lab modules.
»The Business Components module enables you to create and manage reusable business components.
»The Test Plan module enables you to drag and drop the components into business process tests, and debug the components.
»The Test Lab module enables you to run business process tests and view the results.


Business Process Roles and Workflows
»SME (Subject Matter Expert)
•Define and creates components
•Combines components into business process tests
•Can automate components
•Checks the business process test and application
»Automation Engineer
•Creates application areas
•Object repository,
•Recovery scenarios
•Debugs the scenarios

Next BYTE will come in exactly 10 days time...till then keep testing:-)

Sniff Testing

What is Sniff Testing?
The objective of sniff testing is to check whether the major functionality of the application is working fine .A sniff document is created for each application and the scenarios in the document are run when a new environment is set up or a new build takes place.This testing is conducted just to take care if all the scenarios mentioned in the sniff document are working fine .If it passes then the QA team accepts the build and runs the full testing cycle.


What if Sniff Testing Fails?
If sniff fails,build is unaccepted and returned back.

Note:-The next byte will come on 15th feb 2008.Till then keep on testing.:-)

What is Testing?

Simply put,testing is ensuring that the created entity is working as per the set standards for it.