I hope that the bad weather does not influence your mood these days. It’s Friday, few more hours and you are back on your couch watching sports or Netflix.
Hi dear readers, this is Jordan from SnapStack Solutions. I hope you had a productive week despite the storms, and regarding myself, I’ve been working on another article for you. As you already assume judging by the title, this week we are talking about testing, or automatic testing specifically.
Every company that is creating a product should conduct tests. Testing is an important element of product development, especially when it comes to ensuring quality. Many small and mid-sized businesses overlook testing, despite the fact that it is critical for providing a quality product. It\’s crucial to have tests in place, but it\’s also necessary to know how to execute them.
Manual testing is preferred by certain companies, however, it is not the ideal method. When you have tests in place, the next obvious step is to automate your testing process. At all costs, manual testing should be avoided. Furthermore, test automation improves overall software development efficiency and enables the creation of more robust tools.
Let\’s take a look at some of the advantages of test automation in this article.
Your team will spend less time validating newly produced features if you automate your testing approach. It also enhances communication with other departments who rely on the findings of these tests, such as marketing, design, or product owners. These departments can quickly check the automated test logs to see what\’s going on.
Feedback for freshly built features can take a long time without test automation. Test automation allows you to shorten the feedback cycle and provide faster validation for different stages of your product\’s development.
Test automation is particularly useful since it aids in the early detection of problems or errors during the development phase, hence increasing the efficiency of the team.
The number of tests you can validate using manual testing is limited. You can spend more time writing new tests and adding them to your automated test suite because of automation. This expands your product\’s test coverage, ensuring that more functionalities are thoroughly evaluated, resulting in a higher-quality application.
Additionally, automated testing enables developers to design more in-depth tests that cover a wider range of use cases. Unattended testing can be used to execute lengthy tests that are generally avoided during manual testing.
Your organization will save money by employing an automated test environment because fewer resources will be used to test your product. You shouldn\’t be doing any manual testing, according to the theory. This can make a significant difference over the duration of a project.
Installing and configuring an automated testing environment, on the other hand, costs time and resources. You\’re also likely to pay for a good test automation product that can help you set up a solid test automation environment.
As I previously stated, test automation can be used to continuously test and validate newly generated functionalities. This shortens the feedback and testing process, allowing businesses to get their products to market faster.
Building your automated test suite can be difficult initially. However, once you\’ve defined your suite, reusing tests for new use cases or even other projects is a breeze. You can quickly connect another project to your automated test suite, which is a big plus.
You\’ve already mastered the setup of an automated test suite and all associated tools, such as the continuous integration (CI) pipeline. As a result, you may quickly apply what you\’ve learned to build up test automation for a new project.
During manual testing, even the most experienced testing engineer will make mistakes. Faults can happen, especially when evaluating a complex use case. Automated tests, on the other hand, can execute tests with 100% accuracy because they generate the same result every time they are run.
When certain tests fail, automated testing delivers more information than manual testing. Automated software testing not only displays you the application\’s memory contents, data tables, file contents, and other internal program states, but it also shows you the memory contents, data tables, file contents, and other internal program states. This assists developers in determining what went wrong.
Your QA staff will be able to spend more time on tasks other than manual testing if you use an automated testing technique. Aside from that, once the repetitious portion of manual testing is removed, the job description of a QA engineer becomes more fascinating.
For many QA engineers, testing automation opens up the possibility of creating new tools to improve the present testing suite or add new functionality.
Now that you\’ve learned about the advantages of automated testing, let\’s look at the many types of tests available.
More capabilities can be added to an automated test suite, such as simulating thousands of virtual users interacting with your web application to evaluate how it operates. Manual testing will not be able to recreate this type of behavior. This type of feature saves a lot of time for developers!
Manual testing exposes humans to the risk of making mistakes. It makes sense to employ test automation to avoid mistakes, especially in complex circumstances. Even with test automation, you can still make mistakes. When you use test automation for your test suite, however, the rate of errors is substantially reduced.
Automating tests to assess the stability of your build is possible with test automation. Smoke testing is frequently used to verify stability. Smoke testing, on the other hand, is time-consuming and necessitates human input from the testing engineer, such as the creation of test databases.
Smoke testing can also be automated using test automation. To perform smoke tests, you may automatically generate and prepare the necessary databases. As a result, you can immediately assess the structure\’s stability.
In brief, the goal is to be able to release a build as quickly as feasible while still validating its stability automatically.
One thing is sure, if you are focused on the quality of your product or the services you are offering, you would be way behind if you are not considering testers for your business. At SnapStack Solutions, we have a variety of testers, and they are all ready to jump on a new project. Reach us out on social media or simply at contact@snapstack.cz and we would be glad to help you with the resources.
Have a great weekend everyone!
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