Automated testing involves higher upfront costs and should be looked at as a long-term investment where the pay-offs come anywhere between 2-4 years down the road. One has to keep in mind that there are various intangible benefits associated with automation. Performing a return on investment (ROI) for your planned automation can however help you understand right at the beginning the actual returns that you will get from your investments and you can weigh those against the benefits you will gain from automation.
Test automation involves considerable investments of time, money, and resources. With a variety of test automation tools available, it is highly important to choose the right tool set. We have seen several organizations that have invested in test automation but didn’t realize a positive Return on Investment as they did not use the right tool set or right test cases to automate.
BulldogQA’s proficiency includes test automation for products and applications across multiple domains. Our expertise ranges from usage of different testing tools to developing customized automation tools.
If done correctly Test Automation can provide a continual tests for builds, regression testing while building new functionality.
TEST AUTOMATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Regression candidates must belong to a repeatable business function.
- Environment must be stable.
- Static and dynamic data calibration
- Is automation framework robust?
- Is there and SDLC discipline, management for change?
- Are scripts modularized?
- What needs to be monitored?
AUTOMATION WILL
- Improve test quality, accuracy
- Find defects earlier
- Increase consistency
AUTOMATION WILL NOT:
- Reduce your spend on Quality in the short term
- Assure compatibility across browsers, OS, chip sets, platforms, etc.
- Provide I18N assurance
First, automate data
Second, automate easy high impact test cases
BulldogQA Software Test Process:
- Estimate risk
- Cost
- Build test cases
- Acquire test data
- Build Compatibility Matrix
- Mirror data
- Execute
- Document
- Trace
- Regress