QuickTest Professional for Business Process Testing

Business Process Testing is a role-based testing model. It enables Automation Engineers and Subject Matter Experts to work together to test an application's business processes during the application's development life cycle.

Automation Engineers are experts in automated testing. They use QuickTest to define the resources and settings needed to create components, which are the building blocks of business process tests.

Subject Matter Experts understand the various parts of the application being tested, as well as the business processes that need to be tested, however they may not necessarily have the programming knowledge needed to create automated tests. They use the Business Components and Test Plan modules in Quality Center to create keyword-driven business process tests.

Integration between QuickTest and Quality Center enables the Automation Engineer to effectively create and maintain the required resources and settings, while enabling Subject Matter Experts to create and implement business process tests in script-free environment, without the need for programming knowledge.

Note: Each organization defines the roles of Automation Engineer and Subject Matter Expert according to its needs. This help assumes that you are performing the role of the Automation Engineer as defined above, and that the role of Subject Matter Expert is performed by other personnel in your organization. However, these roles are flexible and depend on the abilities and time resources of the personnel using Business Process Testing. There are no product-specific rules or limitations controlling which roles must be defined in a particular organization, or which types of users can do which Business Process Testing tasks (provided that the users have the correct permissions).