Business Process Testing: What is it About?

Business Process Testing (BPT), the process of testing, has become a rather significant part of the entire testing process. And understandably so; after all, it helps ensure all necessary rules are working are meant as they are supposed to. It has become such a rage in the market, that it is starting to shape the testing standards that the global industry conforms to.

But if you are still not convinced, allow us to walk you through some of the other benefits of BPT to help you understand precisely why it is necessary.

Why do you need business process testing?

• Your run-of-the-mill automation testing is plagued by a variety of challenges, such as incoordination amid manual testing professionals and the subject matter experts as well as automation testers, inadequate or no pre-set standards for automation testing and more. Put merely, BPT tends to all these challenges utilizing a systematic and consistent framework.
• BPT involves explicitly defining every individual professional’s role in the process. As a result, it successfully enables the optimal utilization of professionals as well as their skills.
• It also helps the team do away with the need to build an individual automation framework
• It not only makes sure that automation testing is more structured with business components but also helps substantially reduce the labor needed for writing as well as maintenance of test automation scripts.

What does it involve?

Much like everything else, BPT too involves some essential components, such as the following:

• Application area, i.e., a database comprised of ample testing tools, including function library and shared object repository among other things
• A collection of mini test cases that can be recycled referred to as business components
• A set of interconnected functions and activities that are executed to attain a specific goal
• Business process tests, i.e., the test cases that are inclusive of business components

Required skills

• Subject matter experts: Pick either a business component or business process expert based on the project’s requirements
• Automation engineer: To help with the use of automation testing resources
• QA tester: The role of this person, who is a Quality Center user, is to determine the expected values/results for business process tests, run them, and then analyze the results.
• QTP expert: The QTP expert’s job is to help enable the transformation of standard business components into business components via automation of individual steps in the manual element.

How does it work?

• It starts with subject-matter experts building appropriate tests that are then integrated with the quality center. SMEs then also layout the business process documents, business components, and business process tests.
• Automation engineers execute and document each step of the business process
• QA testing professionals then execute and address bugs in independent components.

It is clear to see that with assistance from an advanced tool like business process testing, the entire process, as well as the companies that use them, stand to benefit immensely.