Should You Care About Automated Test Cases if Your Requirements and User Stories are Deficient?

There’s been a lot of buzz for a couple of years now about test case automation and the ability to produce test cases in minutes as opposed to hours and hours of work.? But let’s be real, if your requirements and user stories are deficient, you’re merely testing for an embedded problem.? Defects then become an inevitable part of your testing strategy and we continue down the path of the tail wagging the dog.? What do I mean by that?? Well, software development is happening so quickly these days that many projects are being pumped out in minutes and hours versus days and weeks, leaving no time to holistically prevent defects.? The result is that hunting down dozens of defects per project after it's been released has become an expected part of the process, and Software Development costs have continued to skyrocket.? Poppycock!???

How does this benefit the process, or the client, or the end user? Or the overall budget?? It doesn’t, and it increases risk. Minimizing focus on accuracy in deference to speed can create more stress and problems than it solves.? How do you identify a problem that your #testcase isn’t testing for or recognizing as a problem?? The automated test case will merely reflect the information developed within the planning phase of your project.? This tail wagging the dog strategy will do little more than undermine the quality assurance piece of quality testing and does not improve your project development quality outcomes.? ??

Spec2TestAI Stops Defects Before They Happen and concentrates project team focus and abilities on getting it right from the beginning.? The #Agile #SoftwareDevelopment process was not created to ignore defects in deference to speed, it was meant to create better smarter workflows where team members have shorter, more laser-focused and frequent sprints to prevent defects and produce better quality software.? Unfortunately, that is often not the case and in many cases software development projects are missing the quality boat.? What has happened is that shorter sprints have lead to faster development outcomes,?but those outcomes are becoming a petri dish for defects and require reactive measures to trace back to where they first occurred and eliminate them.? This is not how the Agile process was meant to be applied.? In fact, what was meant to happen was that drilling down into bite-sized development pieces was supposed to ensure higher #quality Software Development outcomes and #businesseffiency.

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An #AgileDeveloper and leader in #QualityAssurance, #ScottAziz, has developed an #AI enhanced Agile Software Development Platform, Spec2TestAI, that works with project teams to prevent creating bugs and defects before they happen.? From there, Spec2TestAI's automatically generated test cases are accurate and applicable and consistent with your well-developed requirements; not the defects inherent to poorly written requirements where defects are already embedded.? Plus, Spec2TestAI generates #BDD files and frameworks, #SecurityAssets and #SeleniumCode to kick the development process off right from the start!? All of these assets are produced in less than 4 minutes once your masterfully written requirements and user stories are analyzed and refined to your satisfaction.? Isn’t time your team got on the right side of Agile #automation?