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title: Jumpstart Your Automated Testing
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# Jumpstart Your Automated Testing

Prescriptive guidance on enabling and utilizing Automated Test Framework

## Accelerator Overview

Jumpstart Your Automated Testing provides Impact customers with an introduction to Automated Test Framework \(ATF\) and how it can be leveraged to accelerate upgrades and increase quality. It includes an applied demonstration of leading practices around getting started with ATF as well as its features and benefits via a temporary cloned instance.

## Package Availability

**Note:** This Accelerator is available for Impact Guided, Guided+ \(Strategic Value or Platform Governance\), Advanced, and Total packages.

Offered pursuant to the applicable ServiceNow Impact Package and Accelerator descriptions available at [https://www.servicenow.com/legal/servicenow-impact.html](https://www.servicenow.com/legal/servicenow-impact.html).

## What You Get

-   **Automated Testing Framework Setup**

    The Technical Consultant:

    -   Provisions of a temporary instance
    -   Enables and configures Automated Test Framework and related tools
-   **Enabling and configuring of Automated Test Framework and related tools**

    Review of

    -   Benefits of Automated Test Framework
    -   Demonstration of Automated Test Framework capabilities
    -   Overview of Test Generator and Cloud Runner
    -   Leading practice recommendations
    -   Key resources and guides
    -   Thirty days of access to the temporary instance and the Technical Consultant
-   **Customer Coaching Session \#2 \(Optional upon Customer request- up to 60 min\)**

    Opportunity for Q&A related to Automated Test Framework


## Requested Customer Resources

|Customer Resource|Responsibilities|
|-----------------|----------------|
|Platform Owner- Required|Responsible for the overall accountability of the ServiceNow platform. Provides leadership and oversight to the System Administrators, ensures team alignment to business strategy and the ServiceNow roadmap, and is actively involved in the overarching governance of the platform.|
|System Administrator\(s\)- Required|Maintains the stability and usability of the ServiceNow platform by performing application maintenance, managing support for cases related to ServiceNow applications, and contributing to ServiceNow software releases by delivering configuration tasks and features.|
|Upgrade Lead- Recommended|Meets with the ServiceNow Impact Accelerator Consultant, provides access to the required resources, and drives the actions from the engagement.|

## Requested Information/Access

Please refer to the applicable Impact Accelerator Description available at [Impact Upgrade Schedules.](https://www.servicenow.com/legal/servicenow-impact.html)

## Exceptions

This Impact Accelerator in its entirety or portions of the Impact Accelerator Activities may not be available to customers in the FedRAMP, NSC DOD IL5, or Australia IRAP-Protected data centers, to self-hosted customers, or in other restricted environments, or to managed service providers \(except for their internal use\).

ServiceNow is not responsible for implementing Automated Test Framework recommendations on Customer’s sub-production or production instances.