keyword driven framework in webdriver

[nknvitech]

hi all,

can anybody describe about keyword driven testing and what is the importance of it,

thanks,Guys

[softwaretestingforum]

Hi Navin, keyword framework has largely come from the need of enabling manual test engineer to write automate tests. As the name suggest there would be key words associated with different operations on automated test script, for example click, type etc. And these keywords would be used by manual testing team to design automated test in the same way as writing manual tests. There would always be programmatic implementation behind these keywords but manual testing team does not have to aware of it.

Though it may look promising on surface, it is not very beneficial in reality, for example there would be need to maintain keywords and not all operations might be supported through keywords. The more emphasis seems to be on letting manual test engineer with good domain knowledge to write string tests and having a different automation test engineers.

[nknvitech]

Hi Tarun,

Many many thanks to you for responding my question you are doing great job and i really appreciate it.Actually i m new in selenium so i dont have much idea so can you guide me which kind of keyword is used in keyword driven framework.

Thanks & Regard
Navin Kumar

[softwaretestingforum]

let's beginning with zero and then move forward. What is your understanding of automated testing?