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As soon as you mention an automation framework, one would find people start talking about Selenium, TestNG so on and so forth. I classify the automation project\u2019s architecture designed by the automation team as a framework, the underlying tools could be any unit test framework or automation tool used.<\/p>\n

Most automation efforts get stuck in the maintenance phase where the upkeep of the scripts starts to outrun the utility we are getting from them. The architecture is not designed with best practices in mind to coup with upkeep and future needs of the product.<\/p>\n

While working on safety critical products I caught up on a few design principles heavily used in that industry. Here are the design principles I call \u2018The pillars of framework design\u2019 learned over the years.<\/p>\n

Maintainability<\/h2>\n

The only constant is change. If the code we write today is going to be hard to maintain in the future, the rework and upkeep cost is going to skyrocket. Nicely written code in my books does not just do the job today, but can keep up with the changes to come in time and be easy to maintain. I recommend every team to have a definition of maintainable code they want to follow as per their needs.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of factors determining if a piece of code is maintainability. I would elude to a few here, a detailed discussion on these would be done some other time.<\/p>\n