Self-Healing Test Automation

(Previously called as Liquid Automation)

Shortlisted for IEEE-ICST 2020 tools demo track

Pepsico's landscape has several integrations and projects run in Agile sprint schedules within extremely demanding time-lines and this needed broader test coverage and regression testing to maintain overall system health. Accenture's Self-Healing Test Automation has proven to be a modular and extensible instrument that addresses our varied needs and ensures that we continue our test life-cycles with efficiency, quality and in an extremely cost effective manner.

Nydia Serna
HR Operations Director, PepsiCo

"All things considered, this tool seemed to be very intuitive and easy to use. Personally, I think it is more accessible to any user, faster to learn how it works, saves testers time and manual effort, and requires less software installation to execute the tests."

Ana Fernandes
Portugal Advanced Technology Center

"Self-Healing Test Automation has allowed us to develop test automation on a particularly difficult SalesForce configuration, in the past we had tried several times to implement test automation on this instance but always without success. The recorder mode helps to be efficient in the implementation phase."

Antonio Sglavo
Naples Advanced Technology Centers

Self-Healing Test Automation (Previously called as Liquid Automation) engine records the user actions and captures the actions in English language steps that can be reviewed later and then plays it back using a selenium engine, mimicking the human user. Now in the conventional record and play back if the UI changes, the script would fail. But with our engine the changes are auto sensed and the internal scripts are self-healed. Special packages developed for cloud native applications like Salesforce, Success factors and SAP S4 HANA etc. to effectively handle the dynamic property changes during the automation process. State of art pattern matching algorithms used for self-healing the automation scripts for cloud native application during execution.

This Solution consists of

Self-Healing Test Automation recorder which is built using Java and open source NLP is used to record the user action and convert to automation script.
Self-Healing Test Automation server which is build using Spring Boot and self-healing algorithms Is used for script execution and management.
Rest API calls are used to interface between the Self-Healing Test Automation Recorder & Self-Healing Test Automation Server.

Features

ARCHITECTURE

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Case Studies

Our clients have achieved exciting results in test automation through implementation of Self-Healing Test Automation

40% REDUCTION IN OVERALL TESTING TIMELINE FOR A MULTINATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL

Challenges

There is a heavy volume of change requests and respective functional testing needed for HR operational support across 92 countries with more than 600 locations
Regression Testing of bi-annual release patches by SuccessFactors that can impact critical business processes and the respective confirmation that it will not affect them and also the need of detailed testing for some new features
Recurring testing needs for change requests especially for global features and complex business scenarios

Our solution

Automated the 50% of the employee life-cycle management test scenarios
Intent use eliminated time and effort loss on recurring transactions i.e. ~ talent review sessions
Batch processing of test scripts ensures independent execution of testing providing great system efficiency e.g. performance forms and all the evaluation process
Client Delivery Value Add by improved automation from TTP to Self-Healing Test Automation
Current used in the latest SAP SuccessFactors Release Regression testing of Release H1 2020 in Preview Stack - reducing the overall testing time-line by ~ 40%

40% REDUCTION IN OVERALL TESTING TIMELINE FOR A GLOBAL CONSUMER PRODUCTS CLIENT

Challenges

There is a heavy volume of change requests and respective functional testing needed for HR operational support across 82 countries and 350K+ employees globally
Regression Testing of bi-annual release patches by SuccessFactors that can impact critical business processes and need detailed testing
Recurring testing needed for change requests especially for global features and complex business scenarios within strict time-lines to support Boomi/CPI

Our solution

Automated the 90% of the employee life-cycle management test scenarios
Intent use eliminated time and effort loss on recurring transactions i.e. ~ re-usability efficiencies in ~ 150 potential new scripts
Batch processing of test scripts ensures independent execution of testing providing great system efficiency e.g. potential to run over 10 end to end hire scenarios for ~ 10 country specific scripts thus ~ test executions in batch processing
Client Delivery Value Add by improved automation from Instant Automation to Self-Healing Test Automation
Currently used in the latest SAP SuccessFactors Release Regression testing of Release H1 2020 in Preview Stack - reducing the overall testing time-line by ~ 40%

IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY DUE TO SELF-HEALING FEATURE FOR LARGE EUROPEAN VIDEO STREAMING PROVIDER

Challenges

Due to the high frequency of bug fix releases, it is required to have a full automatic TNR suite for the business critical processes to run every day
Automatic preparation of data (contracts) for the functional tests
The suite must be executed in 3 different environments (System Test, Integration Test, Bug Fix)

Our solution

Use Self-Healing Test Automation with selenium as automation engine with target architecture structured on 3 different Self-Healing Test Automation Servers on AWS cloud so to cover 3 different environments in parallel
Automated the 90% of the full TNR scenarios
Script failure rate is less than 10% due to auto healing feature
150-180 objects auto healed during one full execution cycle
Daily execution of the TNR suite, every morning at 09:00 the results are available for analysis
Daily health check of delivery chain environments (System Test, Integration Test, BugFix)
Daily execution of the data preparation, every morning at 09:00 the new contracts are available for functional test or UAT

Contacts

Chinmaya Ranjan Jena

chinmaya.ranjan.jena@accenture.com