Building an Automation Framework around Open Source Technologies

Building an Automation Framework around Open Source Technologies

What are the guidelines in building a framework on top of open source  test automation technologies? We need to perform a detailed automation  need analysis study, to evaluate the scope and expectations  of the automation framework to be developed. The need  analysis is an extensive checklist of generic questions like “Supported browsers IE6+, FF2+, Safari, Supported platforms,  protocols“ etc., which  will enable us to take a  decision on go, no-go for developing an  independent test automation framework.