Advantages And Disadvantages Of Test Automation

Already in Australia businesses invest 216 million dollars yearly into automation, within the next three years this figure is expected to rise to 860 million dollars. Clearly using technology in business has numerous advantages, the most significant of

Moreover, the sign-up and renewal Weblabs associated with Plan variations projects added to the testing complexity. Additionally, the dial-up of the Weblabs not necessarily happened at the same time. So, as part of project sign-off, three combinations executed: i) testing when the renewal Weblab dialed up ii) when the sign-up Weblab dialed up and iii) when all Weblabs in control. So, to complete the QA work efficiently, writing automated tests was critical.

Currently we have 39 P1's and 90 P2's Non-Automation tests. These numbers are higher. When you guys have some time, please go through those tests and try to break them, so they can be automated. Also, if you think tests belongs to P3, change the priority to Low in testlink. I have gone through P1 Non-Automation tests and I don't think we can do much about it, unless you move it to P3. If you have any question, please let me know and I will be happy to help.

The importance of Deployable software is so high, because it is one of the most significant measures for customers. Frequent deployment helps to destroy borders between customers and developers (fowler). According to work cycle in CI, where after making changes in a code and integration phase, detection of errors are occurred, at the same time all team members are informed about problems and they try to fix them as soon as possible. While in projects without similar practices, with late integration and testing before delivery to customer, when issues appear only in the end. This can cause delay of release due to fixing founded defects and it can be very long, unpredictable process, because errors are cumulative (fowler). It is very hard to remove bugs, if you have a lot of them. Besides that there is another psychological problem. This problem calls the Broken Windows syndrome. It means that people less motivated to find out bugs and fix them, when project has a lot of them

In Toyota Corporation the following concepts have been taken into consideration for the continuous improvement on JIT which follow as,

It is an easy and confident approach to identify test scenarios for complex business logic. We all know that business rules and validations take up major portion of the requirements given by the customers. While observing how these requirements are represented and communicated to the entire project team by Business Analyst’s or customers, we come to know that most of such business rules and logic are presented in a logical process flow diagram.

Robotium automated tests can be implemented quickly. Robotium is built on JUnit, because of which it inherits all JUnit's features. The Robotium framework automatically handles multiple activities in an Android application.

Unfortunately, there can also be some disadvantages with Webers theory. Similar to the issues in Scientific Management, the precise rules and regulations for each particular job can become repetitive and monotonous. Management can become rigid, inflexible and heavily reliant on red tape, or official routines and procedures marked by excessive complexity resulting in unnecessary delays. (Megginson et al, 1989)

“A sense of responsibility in teaching pushes us constantly to think about and promote the best interests of our students. In contrast, the demand for accountability often induces mere compliance.” - Nel Noddings

In order to reap the benefits of automation and enjoy the technological advancement, organizations tend to automate their operations. There are many organizations which excel in the field of information system development. These are software houses which deal in customized application development and standard product development as well. The customized

Automated testing will actually add more flexibility to the development process, as the developers will be able to run the script to see if any defects were caused from the code changes, and they will be able to fix them immediately, instead of relying on another quality assurance analyst to review the code changes after they have been finalized and find the defect. There are other benefits to creating automated testing, such as creating less of a reliance of key developers and creating an environment where developers feel comfortable changing existing code (as the tests will catch the breaks). It ensures that current code is not defective and future code will not be defective and it limits the need for costly manual testing (Vaaraniemi, 2003). EXOS is the future of ServiceLink. It is essential that the scripts are created and updated to guarantee that all releases for changes within EXOS are ran as effortlessly and efficiently as possible.

Testing as a Service @ Optum Global Solutions Introduction: Testing as a Service (TaaS) is an outsourcing model in which testing activities associated with some of an organization’s business activities are performed by a service provider rather than employees. TaaS may involve engaging consultants to help and advice employees or simply outsourcing an area of testing to a service provider. Usually, a company will still do some testing in-house. TaaS is most suitable for specialized testing efforts that don’t require a lot of in-depth knowledge of the design or the system. Services that are well-suited for the TaaS model include automated regression testing, performance tests, security testing. TaaS is also sometimes known as on-demand

This topic is of special interest to me, especially since I worked as a software engineer building a complex test automation software; sometimes

On the contrast, Software Automation means automatic software design. In software development it is significant to liberate software engineers from doing same tedious work multiple times with the assistance of tools. Automation testing approach makes use of various tools based on the testing requirement of the Application under Test (AUT). In Automation testing tester runs the script on the testing tool and testing is done. The tester may or may not know the inside details of the software module under test [9]. Therefore white box testing or black box testing can be used. White box testing is highly effective in detecting and resolving problems, because bugs can often be found before they cause trouble [11]. White box testing is the process of giving the input to the system and checking how the system processes the input and generated the required

In 2003, authors Sandra Thompson, Martha Thurlow, and Michael Moore reported of what would become the development and streamlining of computer -based testing as the predicted forerunner in to satisfy and exceed the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) expectations established by politicians in Congress. The authors mentioned how the shift in technology with computers and internet in education are bound to change the modem from which schools that have traditionally done standardized pencil and paper based tests to doing it through the computer and internet to reflect the change in education utilizing internet and computers more heavily as the medium for which students are learning. The authors also indicated some of the distinctive beneficial characteristics that this transformation would have in assessment including producing immediate results while breaking it down into statistical segmented categories of identification including gender, ethnicity, language fluency, disability, and income levels of classification; and that over time these tests may be more cost efficient to adopt and use over time in comparison to paper based tests. Furthermore, the authors also predicted the potential of other additional benefits that such testing would allow including options for pre-programmed accommodations for testing, various student selection features, and tests items that are varied and genuine.