Making Enterprise Test Automation a Possibility using UiPath
Traditional test automation tools and frameworks have several inherent challenges. Through a few client examples I would like to showcase of how UiPath can address these challenges and provide required benefits:
1. Superior Object Recognition: For an insurance company in United Kingdom, Infosys testing team faced the challenge where traditional automation tool did not recognize all controls on desktop application built on .Net, Web and other technologies. As a result, the automation could not cover all browsers and tools consumed more CPU & Memory resulting in several challenges. But with UiPath platform, we could automate end-to-end with 30% less time and as a result saving 70 hrs of effort per week.
2. Citrix Support: A Singapore based investment company faced challenges to automate applications hosted on Citrix. Infra validation (Remote desktop sanity test, VPN based sanity test) using traditional tools was not effective, and the Infosys testing team was not able to handle customer expectation to move into unattended test execution for Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) applications. This resulted in low test coverage, longer test cycles with increased number of defects in production. UiPath helped in creating unattended automation which could validate infra configuration rolled out for several countries and resulted in 80% execution time savings through end-to-end test automation across COTS package and upstream and downstream systems.
3. Enterprise Applications Support: For a Manufacturing Client headquartered in the US, involved in development and sales of networking hardware and software, Infosys provided testing services for Logistics and Purchase. There were challenges in automating the end-to-end flow which had interactions with Pega, Oracle EBS applications and database validations with their existing test automation tool. Infosys implemented UiPath solution covering the E2E process of Logistics Order Creation. E2E automation solution with UiPath provided 45% effort savings with faster execution time and repeatability for all users with increased coverage for all country entities.
4. End-to-End Testing: An American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company had been using traditional tools for test automation with a lot of manual intervention required for test data creation/identification, batch monitoring and reporting. These aspects consumed lot of time and delayed their testing cycles. Infosys deployed solution using UiPath platform to handle test data creation/identification, batch monitoring, notifying stakeholders with the status report, retry and recovery during system downtimes. This helped effort reduction by 40%.
Based on our experience so far, we notice that UiPath comes with number of features that help to address the current challenges with traditional test automation tools:
