Test Automation: Achieve the most value with less spending. Explained with real-time experience.
Vipul Patel
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What makes an organization successful while running automated regression tests? Let me revise my so far called automation experience in words.
When I say successful it means a lot for an organization who wants to achieve the most as listed:
o Regression testing of Continuous integrated(CI) development
o Low or no expenses on licensing (automation tools)
o Cut down manual efforts on regression
o Capturing test results in easy and readable format
o Accessibility and ease of automated test executions by any stakeholder. It can be Business Owner, BA, or QA Lead
o Merging test automation with existing test management tools/applications
o Minimum efforts to wire up end-to-end test automation workflow
o Training or educating existing team or functional team on how automation works
o Set up reusable test automation template scripts
o Producing test automation training guides using real-time scenarios
o Simplify accessing local and cloud based applications for test automation
o Demo business on how it will help them to market product earlier and don’t forget to ask them continue sponsoring automation projects ??
Every organization wants to market their products on time or even earlier than scheduled without breaking existing functionality. Business Owner/SME(s) are impatient folks (no offense) who wants their return on investment by overnights. We all know that is impossible, right? Best way is to reduce sprint completion time by cutting down manual regression efforts.
o Start achieving major benefits listed below by automating your most super important application:
o Keep your experienced manual testing team focused on new feature testing
o It will make sure existing features are working fine
o Catching up regression and integration bugs in parallel and fix them in smaller sprints
o Spending less time to test entire regression suite
o Shorter your releases and many more benefits
Super cool, right?
But there are number of examples when companies failed and did not get value out of test automation; even after spending huge. I will highlight this in my next article. Stay tuned!
Have a great weekend!
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value” – Albert Einstein