The system of the automated testing of commercial initiatives for the Volga region branch of JSC "MegaFon"

The developed system allows not only to reduce duration and labor input of testing, but also to increase the speed of testing of new commercial initiatives that promotes improving competitiveness: acceleration of an output of a product to the market, increase in a possibility of receiving new subscribers and deduction of existing.

Project works started at the end of August, 2009 and were complete at the end of November. At the first stage of the project work planning and development of technical specifications, on the basis of those requirements which were formulated by the Customer was performed, namely:

• possibility of use of the general libraries by the greatest possible methods
• lack of a binding to specific databases of servers
• clear development of scripts
• lack of a binding of users

Having studied requirements of the Customer, specialists of the Center of testing started project implementation.

Within the second stage scripts of the automated testing and uniform library of functions in which a number of the general transactions, for example, accomplishment of requests for receiving ID of the client, ID of the region, the client's binding to a tariff plan, etc. was implemented were developed.

The system of the automated testing of commercial initiatives of the company which will allow to banish repeatedly tests, to considerably reduce time of testing became a project deliverable and will give the chance of conducting simultaneous testing of several commercial initiatives.

Nesterova Ilona, the head of the center of development of tariffing of the Volga region branch of JSC "MegaFon" noted: "The developed solution was very convenient – ready scripts and the configured environment allow to hold automatic testing of tariff plans and tariff options. We hope that in 2010 thanks to automation of process of testing of commercial initiatives we will manage to reduce influence of a human factor in workflows".