Combined Automation framework (CAF) is a dynamic automation framework which accumulates the advantages of underlying Keyword driven (KDF) and Data Driven frameworks (DDF) for web applications. This paper presents the comparison of CAF with its underlying frameworks in automation based on various parameters. CAF comprises of the qualities of its underlying frameworks like keyword driven, data driven, module driven (MDF) in terms of keyword reusability, implementation ease, code organization, reporting feature, defect logging and tracking. Users need to be less familiar with code while working with CAF. The paper also compares the CAF and framework-less techniques in terms of data redundancy, script handling and reusability where CAF performs well for a set of automation scripts and outweighs the framework-less technique at any point of time.

CAF, KDF, DDF, MDF, HAF, Framework-Less

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