Subject matter experts have specific knowledge of the application under test's logic, a high-level understanding of the entire system, and a detailed understanding of the elements and tasks fundamental to the application being tested. Subject matter experts are likely to:

• Determine the business processes to test.

• Identify activities common to multiple processes (such as a login procedure, which is used in many business process tests or flows).

• Create business components and manual steps.

• Define automated keyword GUI component steps.

• Create flows and business process tests.

Automation engineers are experts in automated testing using a testing tool such as UFT One. The automation engineer is only needed if the Business Process Testing framework includes automated tests.

Automation engineers are likely to:

• Define automated keyword GUI component steps.

• Define automated GUI scripted components.

• Define automated API scripted components.

• Prepare resources required for testing features:

  • Application areas, which can be defined within ALM and other testing tools.

  • Function libraries with general scripts, which are encapsulated into general operation keyword GUI steps.

  • Shared object repositories, representing the objects in the application being tested. You can use these objects to create steps in business components with keyword GUI automation.

Automation engineers may also be responsible for some of the tasks listed for the subject matter expert.

Automation engineers can also create, debug, and modify business components in the testing tool.

QA testers are likely to:

• Define data for iterations and configurations.

• Run tests to verify that they are designed appropriately and run as expected.

• Review test results.

Test architects design and implement the testing framework. Test architects are likely to:

• Determine the design approach.

• Decide how to categorize, name, organize, and use components.

• Set up standards for using Business Process Testing in the various ALM modules.

Set up and configure Business Process Testing and its users.