Parallelized Execution of Serenity Framework Based Automated Test: A Case Study

Abstract

Software testing is one of the most important parts of the software development cycle. One of the important software testings to conduct is regression testing. Regression testing is done to verify that no new errors arise as a result of incorrect corrections so that the quality of the software being tested is maintained. The regression testing process is an important process to be carried out on a software product. The use of the automated test is considered as an effective approach for regression testing because the manual regression testing process for each release of software changes will be vulnerable to tester mistake. Serenity framework is one of a framework for conducting automated testing, that is structured, has an automated test report generation feature, and is easy to use. However, in the previous research, the execution of automated tests is done serially which is inefficient in terms of time. To overcome this problem, a parallelization approach is presented in this research. With this parallelization, the regression test has been successfully carried out in a more efficient way and in a more effective way compared to the manual regression tests and the serial test execution.