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🚀 Advanced Test Analysis & Root Cause Detection

This project aims to **enhance test execution analysis, failure detection, and debugging automation**. It provides deep insights into **test history, root cause analysis, and AI-powered failure prediction**.

📌 Project Overview

Objective: Develop a real-time test analysis dashboard that: - 📊 Monitors test execution trends across different environments. - 🔍 Identifies failure root causes and test dependencies. - 🧠 Prepares for AI-powered issue detection and prediction.

🔹 Enhancing Test Case Metadata

Since execution times differ across environments, we need to track & analyze variations:

FieldDescription
`environment``development`, `test`, or `production`
`average_duration_per_env`Historical execution time per environment
`median_duration_per_env`More robust than average execution time
`std_dev_duration_per_env`Standard deviation for variance analysis
`execution_variance_score`Score indicating abnormal variations

📈 Advanced Test Duration Analysis

Instead of just using averages, we implement statistical measures:

  • Median Execution Time (Less affected by outliers)
  • Percentiles (P90, P95, P99) (Detect slowest executions)
  • Standard Deviation (Measure stability & fluctuations)

🔎 Root Cause Detection Plan

This system automatically finds the origin of a failed test case:

  • Log Analysis (Extract patterns like `"Invalid Login"`, `"Database Timeout"`, etc.)
  • Failure Propagation (If Login API fails, dependent tests are blocked)
  • Environment-Based Debugging (Compare staging vs. production failures)
  • Historical Data Matching (Detect recurrent issues vs. new issues*

🛠️ AI-Powered Failure Detection (Future)

  • 🧠 Pattern Recognition in Failures (AI clusters similar failure logs)
  • Predict Future Failures (Estimate which tests will fail based on past trends)
  • 📜 Automatic Log Analysis (AI extracts failure causes from logs & provides recommendations)

📊 Final Roadmap

Phase Focus Area Key Features
📌 Phase 1 (Now) Test Analysis & Root Cause Detection Test Relationships, Logs, Median Duration, Failure Propagation
📌 Phase 2 Graphical Reports & Trends Test Execution Graphs, Root Cause Graphs, Historical Failure Reports
📌 Phase 3 AI-Powered Testing Pattern Recognition, AI Failure Prediction, Smart Log Analysis
📌 Phase 4 Development & Project Tracking Git Integration, Developer Workload Analysis, CI/CD Optimization
📌 Phase 5 Business & Commercialization Startup Funding, Selling, Consulting

🚀 Immediate Next Steps

  • ✅ Implement Test Case Relationships (Dependency tracking for failures)
  • ✅ Enhance Root Cause Detection (Log pattern matching, recurrent issue tracking)
  • ✅ Store & Compare Execution Times Across Environments