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Automation Framework - Beyond Buzzword

1. What is Automation? Controlling one application for another application. 2. What is Framework? A structure which consists of all the building blocks for developing an application. 3. What is Automation Framework? You are going to use the building block of structure to develop application which is going to control another application. 4. Background – Object Oriented If you have done development in any OO programming language then you can easily understand the concept of Framework and Automation. Take a simple example of Calculator. Can we call it an automated tool? Yes it is. You know why, because it controls the simple and scientific calculations. If you are asked to develop a program like calculator in any OO language, then you are going to make use of many pre-existing library, their methods, properties to accomplish your goal. Now these library or readymade utilities can be bundles in a framework and you just make use of that framework to execute