What is Automation ?

What is test Automation?

It is a process in which all the drawbacks of manual testing are addressed (over

come) properly and provides speed and accuracy to the existing testing phase.

Note:

Automation Testing is not a replacement for manual testing it is just a continuation

for a manual testing in order to provide speed and accuracy.

Drawbacks of Automation Testing

1. Too cost.

2. Cannot automat all the areas.

3. Lake of experience.

AUTOMATION TOOL:

Automated Tool is an Assistance of test engineers, which works based on the

instructions and information.

General foam work to learn any automated tool.

A test engineer should learn the following to work with any automated tool.

1. How to give the instruction.

2. How to give the information.

3. How to use its recording facility.

4. How to use its play back facility.

5. How to analysis the Result.

When should test Automation be used?

U think it is tedious to apply the test manually.

U think it will be reasonably feasible to automate the test case.

U think it is better we execute the test case manually rather than breaking our head trying

to automate it.

Lack of WILL POWER has caused more failure than Lack of INTELLIGENCE or ABILITY.

Basically we can start with Manual Testing; the situations to move to automate will be

1) when we need to test the same functionality with more set of input data.

2) Difficult to do manual testing (time wise, resources wise)

3) Where users work mostly on that particular page or section of that application

4) Pages/ sections very important to the users

5) where More no of mathematical calculations will be done