Integration and comparison of web application automated testing frameworks with Devops cloud development tools for software tester

Abstract

Nowadays, most tech companies have changed their software development life cycle from a waterfall model to an Agile model. The Agile model aims to bring out software applications as fast as possible to serve the best outcome for customers’ needs and to support their requirements which tend to change rapidly. However, fast delivery can lead to defects/bugs more easily. Therefore, software testers should have some tools to help examine whether an application will work properly. DevOps is a model for testing and releasing. Automation is a key component of DevOps that can reduce time for testing and increase the stability of an application. The purpose of this study was to design an automation testing method and find the best tool for software testers using DevOps cloud tools and a CI/CD pipeline. The results collected from the pipeline showed pipeline runtime and success rate. All cloud platform tools have an average runtime of around 2 minutes. Azure DevOps tends to be suitable for software testing due to its high success rate. Moreover, Azure DevOps provides useful utilities and dashboards. Implication of the Thesis : Further research should be conducted to compare web automation test cloud platform tool service pricing year plan to compare runtime and success rate of cloud platform tools and to compare web automation test by selecting another web application to perform schedule run and compare results from the pipeline.