engineering
Test Automation Engineering
T
esting is a fast growing practice Organizations have realized that Test- nology, the applications are becoming
which is now followed in each ing is a vital stage for any project and more and more complex and larger in
and every project. Gone are the should be practiced with proper time size. Thus if the work is to be done
days when Testing was considered as and dedication. smartly, everyone would agree that it’s
useless and a time wasting activity. As the world is advancing in tech- clearly not the best use of time to click
on the same button looking for the
same dialog box every single day.
Smart testing is delegating those kinds
of tasks away and computers are a
great place to delegate repetitive work.
This is probably the best way to
describe automated testing to a lay
man. An important aspect of test
automation is the idea of partial test
automation, or automating parts but
not all of the software testing process.
A common question which arises
among testers is, “When should we
automate?”. There are no hard and fast
rules about this issue. Here are some fo
the points which can be taken care of
while making a judgment:-
Time Spent v.Time Saved.
If a test will be quick and easy to
automate and doing so will save lots of
time, then definitely tester should go
for it! On the other hand, if a test will
be complicated, difficult, or require a
large amount of time to automate, and
doing so isn’t going to save very much
time, probably one shouldn’t bother.
Sanity Spent v. Sanity Saved.
If a task is tedious, repetitive, or
error prone, then it’s worth automating.
But if there is only one tester have to
do it once, maybe not. For example, In
OLIA.COM a bigger team, a one-time pass
through several hundred file checking
file versions isn’t worth automating;
instead dividing the files up amongst
all so that each one only has to check
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