Testing Roles and Responsibilities

Activity	Test Automation Activity	Description	Responsibility
Unit Testing	Automated Unit Tests + Coverage	Developers create Unit test scripts that they initially will execute on their own workstation. These scripts are also executed as part on the continuous integration and build processes. These tests will also yield test coverage results and the test results for later consumption.	Developers
Integration Testing	Automated Unit Tests	Developers create Unit test scripts that they initially will execute on their own workstation. These scripts will differ from the unit test scripts as these scripts will assume the integration of the unit under test with other units. These scripts are also executed as part on the continuous integration and build processes.	Developers
	Automated Tests	Developers create test scripts that they initially will execute on their own workstation. These scripts differ from the unit test scripts and the earlier mentioned integration test scripts as these scripts test the integration with external systems. These scripts are also executed as part on the continuous integration and build processes.	Developers
Functional Testing	Automated Functional Tests	The test automation specialist develops automated functional tests based on the test design and test ideas developed by the test group. The automated functional tests are used to create automated regression test suites that are repeatedly run during the sprints and the lifetime of the application.	Test Automation Specialist
	Automated Functional Tests	The test automation specialist develops automated high volume/many variants functional tests based on the test design and test ideas developed by the test group. These tests are typically not candidates for the regression test suite as they are meant for intensive time-consuming in depth tests	Test Automation Specialist
	Automated Functional Tests	The test automation specialist develops automated functional smoke tests based on the test design and test ideas developed by the test group. These tests are used on an ongoing basis during the sprints and the lifetime of the application.	Test Automation Specialist
Performance Testing	Performance Test	The test automation specialist develops user simulation scripts that will be used for performance and load testing.	Test Automation Specialist

The following activities feed into testing and test automation development:

Activity	Participant	Delivers
Detailed Technical Design/Code	Developers	Automated Unit Tests
Test Design - Based on Acceptance Criteria and others	Testers, Business Analysts	Key scope to be automated
Exploratory Testing	Testers	Test Ideas for automation
Test Design System and Non-functional requirements	Testers, Development Team, Business analysts	Key scope to be automated
Variant Testing Needs	Testers	Additional scope to be automated
Smoke Test Definition	Testers, Developers, DevOps	Key activity to be automated
Regression Test definition	Testers	Minimum need for the automated regression test