Project: Automated Regression Testing Solution for Fictitious SaaS Cybersecurity Company (CyberSIEM Ltd.)

Goal: To exercise Software Project Management knowledge including SDLC methodologies (Feature Driven Development with Agile/SCRUM), Project Planning (MS project), Change Management, Release Management, and Testing/Bug Management.

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Table of Conetents:

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3. Personas & User Stories
4. SDLC Model
5. Product Roadmap & Sprint Planning
6. ROV & ROI
7. Risk Analysis & Management
8. Testing & Bug Management
9. Architecture & Design
10. Release Management
11. Change Management & Project Plan
12. Project Sprints & Retrospective

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Fictitious Company (CyberSIEM Ltd.) Overview

Company: CyberSIEM Ltd.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Number of Employees: 175
Number of Software Developers: 60

Mission Statement:
“To provide and enable strategic threat detection and response in the wake of sophisticated security needs.”

Target Market:
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions, focusing on small to medium-sized firms.

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Project Nirvana - Automated Regression Testing with Selenium

Business Objectives

CyberSIEM Ltd. seeks to:

• Reduce end-to-end regression testing efforts and costs.
• Increase the speed and efficiency of feedback loops to the development team.
• Identify and report bugs impacting strategic threat detection and incident response workflows.

Challenges Faced

The internal Security Operation Center (SOC) team, acting as the first customer (Customer 0) of CyberSIEM's SIEM solution, currently performs manual end-to-end testing. This manual process includes:

• Executing over 200 test cases across major web browsers.
• Verifying pass/fail criteria.
• Manually analyzing results and reporting feedback to developers.

This approach is slow, error-prone, and resource-intensive, resulting in delayed bug detection and longer release cycles, thus impacting CyberSIEM Ltd.'s competitive edge.

Current State Without Automation

The SOC team:

• Struggles to keep up with the manual execution of regression tests for every product update (both mainline and hotfix releases).
• Experiences delays in feedback loops to the development team, hindering fast fixes.
• Faces potential human errors in testing, risking the oversight of defects and bugs that could affect the solution's threat detection accuracy.

Solution: Selenium Automation

To address these challenges, CyberSIEM plans to integrate Selenium, an open-source testing framework, to automate their regression testing process.

Key Benefits of Using Selenium:

• Speed: Automating over 200 test cases drastically reduces the time taken for regression testing.
• Accuracy: Selenium eliminates human errors in test execution and results verification.
• Efficiency: With faster feedback, development teams can quickly identify and resolve bugs.
• Cross-browser Testing: Selenium supports multiple browser environments, ensuring comprehensive testing coverage.
• Cost-effective: Reduces manual testing costs and optimizes resource allocation.

Technical Overview

Chosen Open Source Solution: Selenium
Website: Selenium

Why Selenium:

• Open-source and widely supported by the development community.
• Cross-browser compatibility for robust regression testing across different environments.
• Supports integration with CI/CD pipelines to streamline the software development lifecycle.

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Project Implementation

1. Setup & Configuration:

   • Integrate Selenium with existing testing frameworks.
   • Configure Selenium for multiple browser environments (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.).

2. Test Case Automation:

   • Automate CyberSIEM’s 200+ manual regression test cases.
   • Design scripts to cover key threat detection and incident response workflows.

3. CI/CD Integration:

   • Embed Selenium-based automated tests into CyberSIEM’s continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline (Jenkins).

4. Performance Monitoring:

   • Track and analyze test execution time.
   • Generate reports for faster bug identification and fix.