Test Automation - The Best Way to Help your Business Grow It has been observed that the pressure for delivery of new applications and functionality is not stronger in today’s competitive market. Now, this is what increases pressure on all software testing organizations, thereby, improving test coverage while meeting the deadlines. However, if you want to achieve quality goals right within the constraints of budgets and schedules, then the best thing would be to automate.
Test Automation Test automation is all about the use of special software in order to control the implementation of tests and the evaluation of actual effect with the predicted ones. The role of test automation is to automate some repetitive but essential tasks through a formal testing process or add additional testing that is difficult to perform manually. A more far-reaching way to explore test automation is to look at it as ‘Software Development’. Like software development, you will find test automation involves designing the test programs, developing the reusable components, writing the test scripts and then accordingly testing them to ensure the quality of test automation. To be precise, test automation is the process to convert the manual test cases into the programmable test scripts, which can be properly executed by a system and of course without any human interference. Most of the testing programs, whether they are functional, has good performance or under stress can be easily automated with the help of test automation. However, it must be noted that if the automation yields the required ROI (Return on Investment), it will call for a proper evaluation. Now, keeping the ROI in mind, even though there are possibilities to automate all tests it must be noted that not all tests are worth automating.
Investing in Test Automation is a Boon Research says that due to several operational pressures, most business leaders tend to lose focus from their actual business results, which they must drive through automation. Time-Driven Objectives “Delivery Schedules” are exposed to market pressure. For this, organizations can lose customers, revenues and last but not the least the market share as well. Cost-Driven Objectives It has been observed that due to the cost and resource reductions many organizations had to adopt automation. This has not only reduced time to market but has cut the testing budget as well.
Customer-Driven Objectives It is true that as it becomes expensive when delayed in the market, terrible it becomes to deliver a faulty product as well.
Key Benefits of Test Automation Before you invest in Test Automation in order to drive one of the above-mentioned points, first understand what Test Automation is and what key benefits you will enjoy. Cumulative Coverage As applications develop, the number of test cases increases with time, which needs adequate coverage. Even if there is a 10% code change, there will be a requirement of 100% automation testing for the features. If you do not constantly increase the cycle time and the test resources, then the test coverage will keep declining. Automation helps in accumulation of test cases over the entire period of that particular application. This will also test both the existing and new features at the same time. Leverage from Automation If you are looking for true leverage from automation testing, then always remember that it does not come from repetitive testing that was captured when performed manually, but from executing tests, that was never performed manually. Faster Time to Market Automation testing helps in reducing time to market by allowing the test execution to take place 24*7. As soon as the test library is automated, execution becomes faster and runs for a longer time than any manual testing. It is high time to leave behind manual testing and go ahead with automation testing that will help your business grow.