When Does Your Project Need Test Automation?
When the project is longer than a year then it is better to automate. Such projects consist of several subsystems that require regular regression testing. At this time QA team spends too much time on the manual testing of regression tests.
Repetitive Testing Tasks:
By using technology to automate repetitive testing tasks, business can improve their overall efficiency and competitiveness, also enhancing customer satisfaction and driving innovation. Automation of repetitive tasks is the best way to achieve excellent business and focus on strategic activities like:
1. Increased Productivity:
Once we start to automate repetitive tasks it helps to streamline the processes and reduce the amount of time required to complete routine tasks. This can help employees to free and focus on more strategic work that can help for growth and innovation. Also, as per manual tasks, Automated tasks can be performed more quickly and accurately, which can save time and increase productivity.
2. Reduced Errors:
While we Automate repeating activities, it helps to reduce the risk of manual errors, which can save time and reduce costs.
3. Improved Employees Engagement:
Repetitive tasks are boring and cause employees to lose their excitement about their job roles. Using automation for repetitive tasks, employees focus on other challenges and improve engagement and job satisfaction.
4. Reduced Costs:
Using automation can reduce the costs of manual labor, which can result in the cost of savings over time.
5. Improved the Quality and Customer Experience:
Repetitive tasks help to reduce the error and improve the quality of work.
When to Automate?
When two or more developers, working on the same project. The developer should be sure that updating the code does not break someone else’s code. At that movement test automation helps to check that faster.
Sometimes we need to check old versions of the software at that time automation will be an effective solution. Running a script in automation can cover the verification of the same functionality on different configurations.
If a large amount of data is present, manual testers aren’t able to provide a wide test coverage within a minimal time, but automation tests all data.
If the software is developed according to agile methodology, it contains short iterations and frequent releases. In this case, there is no time to perform regression testing manually within one sprint. So, automation will be very helpful to test scripts in minimal time.
