The proposed Socket reduces the testing time of the automation tool from 8-10 weeks to 4-5 hours. Manual labor is reduced from a team of 8 members to 2. The accuracy of the automation tool tested was increased from 45% to 92% and the overall productivity of the automation tool was increased to . | Journal of Automation and Control Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2013 Increasing the Productivity of Automation Tool by Developing Socket Steven Fernandes and Josemin Bala Steven Fernandes and Josemin Bala are with Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Karunya University, Coimbatore, India case “Documentation specifying inputs, predicted results, and a set of execution conditions for a test item” [5]. Although there are several ways of defining a test case practically all the definitions imply that a test case will either pass or fail that is how the tester verifies it as per the requirement. The Socket is a script written using scripting languages, Perl, Tcl, It is intended to generate the test cases automatically which are of 2 types. Firstly test cases generated based on usage, secondly test cases based on connectivity. The purpose of Socket is to reduce manual intervention, decrease testing time, reduce testing complexity and thus increase the productivity of the automation tool. The remaining of the paper is organized as follows: Section II provides a brief overview of Socket, Section III presents a case study of Socket on an automation tool. Section IV reports the experimental results, Section V draws the conclusion. Abstract—Socket is a wrapper around the automation tool which needs to be tested and it is intended to check the effectiveness of the automation tool. The main functionality of Socket includes Auto generation of test cases, parallel firing of auto generated test cases and Auto report generation. Auto test case development is a vital part to check the quality and effectiveness of the automation tool. Parallel firing of auto generated test cases reduces the testing time considerably and Auto report generated by consolidating all the log files reduces testing complexity. The proposed Socket reduces the testing time of the automation tool from 8-10 weeks to 4-5 hours. Manual labor is reduced from a team of 8 members to 2. The
