Why Foster a Test Automation Culture In Your Organization

Enterprises expect no human intervention in their testing process once Test Automation is implemented in the project. To assure this, organizations offer a one-click or zero-click test automation solution to their customers. Test Automation is known to improve the quality of your software, time-to-market, and increase your Test Coverage. However,? it should not come as a surprise for you when you see enterprises sticking to manual testing processes rather than automating them.?

So why are organizations on the fence to adopt Test Automation?

While some enterprises may claim due to unsatisfactory ROI, some would question its success rate.?

It is no doubt that Test Automation benefits are quite lucrative. However, to cash on these benefits, you need the right strategy to implement the process which must start from cultivating a Test Automation culture in your organization.

?This blog will help you understand why you need to foster a Test Automation culture before you start with your automation process.

So let’s begin.

Why is Test Automation Crucial in Agile Development?

In agile we carry out the development work in short sprint cycles and implementing test automation helps you in accelerating the testing process and meeting this demand. Similarly, automation helps you respond faster to changes. It helps in continuous testing as it can be used to automatically run test scripts every time a new code is pushed to the code repository.?

Other benefits of Test Automation

• It supports parallel testing and Cross Platform Testing.
• It can be integrated with CI/CD pipeline for effective testing.
• It increases testing coverage and test effectiveness.

Why You Should Foster a Test Automation Culture?

1. Test Automation is a team effort

You would agree that Test automation is not an isolated activity. To implement Test Automation you need to bring your manual and automation testers on a common platform. You would need help from the development team to understand the functional requirements and collect Test data for the testing process. Similarly, you would require inputs from the business analyst team to make better automation scripts. This is why we need to have an automation culture so that each member of the team is contributing to the efforts taken by other team members of the automation team.

2. The team should embrace Test? Automation

It is important that the automation team should be excited about implementing Test Automation in the project. Unless the team is motivated, no tool or strategy can help reap the benefits of Test Automation in the organization. The team should be convinced about the short-term and long-term benefits of automation which can help them in being focused while executing the process. Automation leads can lead the QA team and guide them through the benefits of Test Automation to make the team excited about the end results. The lead can take efforts to remove biases against test automation in the team.

3. The team lacks training or knowledge of Test Automation

It is always advised to reap the immediate benefits of Test Automation you must first automate repetitive tasks. While implementing Test Automation, the requirements, and expectations must be crystal clear to avoid disappointments at the later stage of the testing process. If a team is lacking knowledge of the Test Automation process or tools then the team would not be motivated enough to execute the entire process.?

4. Automation is a structured process

It is crucial that the Test Automation process is implemented in a? systematic and structured manner. Failing to do so can lead to roadblocks on the Test Automation path. It is crucial that we automate the right things at right time with the right process.?

Conclusion:

In the above blog, we saw the importance of Test Automation and the multiple benefits we can achieve by implementing the Test Automation process in our organization. We also saw the need to foster a culture of Test Automation in the organization so that the chances of failure of Test Automation projects reduce. Embracing a Test Automation culture is surely bound to yield better results for the organization in terms of superior quality products with faster time-to-market.

With improved and advanced tools available in the market, Test Automation will surely be adopted on a larger scale and would yield desired results provided we have a Test automation culture in the organization.

At Testrig Technologies, our Test Automation Experts have successfully implemented Test Automation on a number of projects across different domains to build quality products with accelerated delivery.?

So do connect with our QA experts to build a robust Test Automation Strategy for your product.?