when to automate testing
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Printed Date: 24Jan2025 at 8:38am
Topic: when to automate testing
Posted By: vidhya
Subject: when to automate testing
Date Posted: 28Mar2007 at 4:26am
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When to automate testing? In a survey reported in August 2005 two out of every five organisations that had invested in test automation tools admitted to not using them. The question wasn't asked, but it's likely that a substantial proportion of the other three fifths weren't getting much value out of their investment. Test automation isn't a magic cure-all for everything that's ailing in our test activities. Testing is a rather chaotic activity in most software shops, and automating it runs the risk of turning it from slow chaos to high-speed (and much more destructive) chaos. See the two following articles: Is your organisation ready to automate? There are several related major reasons why test automation ware often becomes shelfware within a period of about three months, but the commonest is lack of technical readiness for the minute attention to detail that test execution tools mostly require. Closely related is the need for financial support to provide this technical readiness; in the Methods and Tools survey mentioned above, the commonest reason for dropping automation tools was that "managers had the budget to buy the tools, but did not consider the budget and time needed to train people in the tools and use them in real projects." In any case, test execution tools are not necessarily the best place to start. Bringing testing under good administrative control with a "test management tool" -- one that helps manage the configuration and status relationships between specifications (or software features) and tests -- may be a better starting point. The following book reviews automation assistance for every major testing activity, from the Business Analysis phase to the Test Program Review and Assessment Phase. It's also an excellent choice for an organisation wanting to bring its testing under good control before undertaking automation (in fact, it's one of the best books available on organising the test function, automated or no): ------------- MBA Examination papers 
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