Method and system for improving user friendliness of a manual test scenario
Methods and computer systems for improving the user friendliness of a non-executable human-readable test scenario by removing unessential test steps, including: receiving a non-executable human-readable test scenario including unessential test steps; identifying the unessential test steps; and generating a user friendlier non-executable human-readable test scenario by removing the identified unessential test steps.
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium for use in a computer to improve user friendliness of a non-executable human-readable test scenario by removing unessential test steps, the computer including a processor, and the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising:
program code for receiving a non-executable human-readable test scenario comprising unessential test steps; wherein at least 50% of the unessential test steps are expressed by a user interaction activity designed to be manually performed through interaction with a screen that does not return a value usable for its calling screen;
program code for identifying the unessential test step; and
program code for generating a user friendlier non-executable human-readable test scenario by removing the unessential test step.
2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the non-executable human-readable test scenario was generated from a recording, and thus includes an unessential test step.
3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the unessential test step comprises a screen that can be replaced by its returned value without changing main outcome of the test scenario.
4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 3 , further comprising program code for replacing text describing steps related to the screen that can be replaced by the returned value with a request to insert the returned value.
5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the unessential test step comprises a screen that returns a value that the user already should have known.
6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the unessential test step comprises an entry value identical to a default value.
7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6 , further comprising program code for removing essentially all explanations related to default values from the user friendlier non-executable human-readable test scenario.
8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the unessential test step comprises a help screen.
9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the unessential test step comprises an unproductive step that results in an error message; whereby a following successful variation of the unproductive step is left in the user friendlier non-executable human-readable test scenario.
10. A computer system to improve user friendliness of a non-executable human-readable test scenario by removing unessential test steps, the computer system comprising:
a storage device containing computer usable code; and
a processing unit operable to execute the computer usable code to:
receive a non-executable human-readable test scenario comprising unessential test steps; wherein at least 50% of the unessential test steps are expressed by a user interaction activity designed to be manually performed through interaction with a screen that does not return a value usable for its calling screen;
identify the unessential test step; and
generate a user friendlier non-executable human-readable test scenario by removing the unessential test step.
11. The computer system of claim 10 , wherein received non-executable human-readable test scenario was generated from a recording, and thus includes unessential test steps.
12. The computer system of claim 10 , wherein the unessential test step comprises a screen that can be replaced by its returned value without changing main outcome of the test scenario.
13. The computer system of claim 12 , wherein the processing unit further executes the computer usable code to replace text describing steps related to the screen that can be replaced by the returned value with a request to insert the returned value.
14. The computer system of claim 10 , wherein the unessential test step comprises a screen that returns a value that the user already should have known.
15. The computer system of claim 10 , wherein the unessential test step comprises entry values identical to default values.
16. The computer system of claim 15 , wherein the processing unit further executes the computer usable code to remove essentially all explanations related to default values from the user friendlier non-executable human-readable test scenario.
17. The computer system of claim 10 , wherein the unessential test step comprises a help screen.
18. The computer system of claim 10 , wherein the unessential test step comprises an unproductive step that results in an error message; whereby a following successful variation of the unproductive step is left in the user friendlier non-executable human-readable test scenario.