According to a recent survey conducted by Worksoft, 4 out of 5 surveyed companies reported the tangible benefits of automation testing in multiple areas (86%), with the majority of respondents specifically highlighting 3 to 6 areas with the highest impact. These benefits can be summed up to the following:
Improved Staff Performance and Time Savings
Software tests should be scheduled regularly during the development cycles to secure quality. Obviously, more complex products e.g. custom CRM systems, EMR/EHR systems or any enterprise web application project require more complex testing, especially if you choose to support multiple operating systems and software configurations.
After each manipulation with the source code, you need to run software tests. Repeating these tests manually is costly and time-consuming. One of the core benefits of test automation is that you need to create a set of test cases once and afterward conduct them 24/7 even when the testing team is out of the office.
Automated testing cuts down the time to run repetitive tests from days to just a few hours. After all less time spent = smaller development bill to foot.
Additionally, you don’t need to keep a dedicated manual testing team to handle QA. One automated testing engineer can have you covered at all times.
Earlier Bugs Identifications Before The Users Are Impacted
Automated testing increases the depth and scope of tests to spot even the smallest imperfections. Running lengthy tests is hard to schedule manually as they cannot be left unattended or require a large number of human resources.
One of the definite pros of automation testing is that they allow us to dig deeper into the applications core and efficiently review data tables, memory and file contents and internal program states to determine if the product is behaving as expected. In fact, you can schedule to run simultaneous tests on multiple computers with different configurations or cross-text a web and native-mobile app solution. Additionally, you can create powerful test cases to emulate the activity of hundreds or thousands of virtual users, who are interacting with your network and application. Considering that the Romexsoft team specializes in high-load web applications – this feature is indispensable to ensure the end product is 100% stable and robust.
Automated test cases not only offer a larger test coverage compared to manual tests, but allow faster deployment of new features to users due to the supersonic speed and efficiency of the entire process.
Improved Test Results Accuracy
Take human factors into account for manual testing. Even the most skillful professionals may make mistakes during the monotonous work.
Automation test services. Automated tests perform the very same steps with all the results being recorded for further review. As a result, your testing team has more time to deal with complex features and improve automated test cases. You can check out this BDD test automation cheat sheet for Serenity as an example.
Original article: https://www.romexsoft.com/blog/automation-testing/
