Towards adaptive framework of keyword driven automation testing

This paper presents an adaptive framework of keyword-driven automation testing to support the conversion of the keyword-based test cases into different kinds of test scripts automatically to be executed by different test applications under different test environments (such as GUI environment, database environment, etc.). XML is used to describe the keyword-based commands for the test case. An engine is provided in this framework to parse the XML file and dispatch the command sequences to the different test drivers according to the driver type pre-defined in the command. The test driver is responsible for dispatching the commands to the corresponding test applications to generate the test scripts automatically according to the keywords in the commands. The test scripts will be executed by the test applications on the system-under-test under different test environments. All the test results will be recorded into a log repository for generating all kinds of the test reports.