Testing in Operations - Automation

Background

In Operations team, a team own licenses of some enterprise products that run through a business process to maintain health of network infrastructure, of customers. These enterprise products belong to NMS domain.

We have written some business process tools(using python REST) that talks to these NMS products, to discover the SNMP devices of our customers.

Daily monitoring is done through interfaces of NMS products. We get production issues from NMS products, amidst this monitoring.

The business process life-cycle is:

• To design end-to-end deployment solution(includes NMS products & python tools)

• Execute the solution

• Monitor the admin interface of NMS product solution deployed in customer infrastructure

• Optimise the solution for minimum maintenance

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Amidst this life cycle, team embraced Operational acceptance testing(OAT) as main approach. Details of Operational acceptance testing is given here.

Are their testing tools to automate OAT?