Test data and API quality for a core register

Situation

A core register, its interfaces, and the data behind them.

For a public-sector IT provider we own quality engineering for a core database and its interfaces.

Scope

The unglamorous half and the visible half.

• Test data management: creating, provisioning and keeping data consistent across environments
• A failing test means the code is wrong, not the fixture
• API tests with RestAssured
• UI tests with Selenium
• Both extended into the client's existing test automation framework rather than replacing it
• Load and performance tests on the APIs that carry the system

Result

Coverage on the framework the client already had.

• Automated API and UI coverage inside the client's own framework
• Test data ready when the pipeline runs
• Load and performance coverage on the carrying interfaces

Tools

What was involved.

• RestAssured
• Selenium
• Client test automation framework
• Test data management
• Load and performance testing

At a glance

Industry

Public sector

Country

Austria

Status

Ongoing

Service

Test Architecture

Focus

Core register, interfaces, test data

Engagement model

Ownership of quality engineering