Applying Scriptless Test Automation on Web Applications from the Financial Sector

Abstract

This industry showcase presents experiences on application of TESTAR, an open source tool for scriptless testing through graphical user interface (GUI), to the web applications of Kuveyt T+APw-rk Participation Bank in Turkey. Kuveyt T+APw-rk Bank uses Selenium and Appium for regression testing of mobile and internet banking, but the maintenance cost of the test scripts is increasing day by day. Therefore, scriptless GUI testing with TESTAR was evaluated. To provide better support for testing web-based applications, TESTAR was extended with Selenium WebDriver integration, JavaScript support, and other new features. Results show that TESTAR is detected GUI elements much better after the improvements, and it was able to find 2 relevant errors that were not identified by existing scripted test cases.