Keane Launches Automated Open Keyword Framework

Keane has announced the launch of its latest open source automated keyword centric test framework, Open2Test, that is independent of specific tools and is structured to analyse the standardization of keywords for frequent usage across most platforms, and for a range of assorted test automation tools.

"Our experts at Keane (News - Alert) created a solution to overcome the most difficult problem in developing a flexible, tool independent, platform independent, keyword-driven automation framework by delivering an open source solution," said Marv Mouchawar, Executive Vice President of Global Practices and Products at Keane.

Company officials say that it is allowing global access to the entire testing subsystem including its entire collection of relevant computing functions and control codes so that developers, especially quality and assurance specialists, can review features and source code, and continuously keep refining the test automation procedures.

 “The goal of Open2Test is to raise the bar in the industry and set a new standard for test automation while allowing clients to focus on the important tasks such as writing automated test cases for their application under test," said Mouchawar.

The test automation is available for download in two variants, Web Framework for Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Windows Framework for QTP, allegedly has an automated graphical user interface, and allows testing agencies to write their own evaluation controlling scripts using keywords in excel sheets and guarantee that the scripts will be compatible with most of the test automation tools currently available worldwide.

"Test automation today is largely the same as it was 10 years ago," said Mouchawar.

Keane claims that this new method is positioned to create a paradigm shift in approach towards test methods, and instead of companies and developers building testing tools, they can instead use available automated processes to do the tests, and this would leave the developers free to channelize all resources and energy exclusively towards improving the quality of the target applications.

Company officials say that it all began when software engineers got fed up with having to write and rewrite the same code again and again irrespective of industry and technology, and decided to write automated scenarios that would put an end to this wasteful activity.

Interestingly, TMCnet had earlier reported that some 1,300 codes had been recycled into other projects more than 365,000 times and this reuse saved more than 316,000 staff years, which in turn translates to tens of billions of dollars in development cost savings.