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10 BEST PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES FOR TEST AUTOMATION

Detailed understanding of the Application to be tested: <br>Before starting the automation make yourself familiar with the product as the tool selection is largely dependent on the technologies that the product uses. For a desktop application, one should be clear about the language it supports. Similarly when it comes to web application, the supported browsers should be known beforehand.<br>

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10 BEST PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES FOR TEST AUTOMATION

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  1. 10 BEST PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES FOR TEST AUTOMATION

  2. Detailed understanding of the Application to be tested: Before starting the automation make yourself familiar with the product as the tool selection is largely dependent on the technologies that the product uses. For a desktop application, one should be clear about the language it supports. Similarly when it comes to web application, the supported browsers should be known beforehand.

  3. Hiring a motivated and experienced team or Automation Engineer for the job: The unfortunate mistake that one often makes is to award the task to the manual inexperienced testers who would start working without having any technical knowledge for the subject. Even many a times Engineers find it hard to deal together. Test automation requires full dedication and time. Proper guidance from technical person is a must and inevitable.Learn more: Software Testing Training in Chennai

  4. Requirement of resources (Automation Tools): The success of automation testing has huge dependence on the tool that one selects for the purpose. Thus selecting a right tool is a pre requisite for automation testing and should be taken care of. Proper dedicated time should be spent while choosing the right tool. So, one has to choose the tool after reviewing, that would cater to the needs, from the various tools that are available currently in the market. This may sound tedious task at the beginning but as the project concludes, you will definitely realize the importance of one time and long term investment of choosing the right resources at the very starting.

  5. Possibilities with Automation: Never try to compare manual testing with that of automation. Both are interdependent but the working capabilities and areas of the both are restricted by certain constraints. Manual testing may be of advantage for a certain task while it might not be possible to do the same in other job which requires automation testing. The meaning of the word Automation is to run fewer tests more often. You must start small by attacking the smoke tests first. Then cover up your build acceptance tests. Then move onto the frequently performed tests, followed by the tests that may eat up a huge time. But be sure that every test you automate, it saves time for a manual tester to focus on more important things. Automation is not and even can never replace manual tests. The primary role of automation is to take away the repeated and tedious time consuming work from the manual testers so that they can use their concentration and strength in finding new testing scenarios and bugs.

  6. To conclude - One should automate few tests that might be valuable and time savers or difficult (impossible) to be done by manual testers. If one does that, the very task of automation is done successfully.Learn more @ Software Testing Training in Chennai

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