What is automation?

What is automation?

1. It is the Application of software tools to automate a human-driven manual process of reviewing and verifying a software product.

2. Why automation testing?

   • Test automation is the best way to increase efficiency, test coverage, and speed of execution in software testing. Reduces manual testing efforts.

3. Automation Benefits

   • Execution time, Reduce manual errors, Improve productivity, Optimized skill sets, Scalability, Increased test coverage, Cost savings, Reduces regression testing time, Time saving, Reuse of test scripts

4. What to Automate

   • Automating redundant activities can free up valuable time.,
   • Tasks that need to be done frequently or on a set schedule.,
   • Customer experience matters

5. Software parts to test

   • Backend testing
     • checks the server side or the database of the application or web software
   • API testing
     • the business logic is tested, the application is tested
   • Ui testing
     • testing how the user interacts with the application, how the client used the application.
   • Mobile testing

6. When not to automate

   • Subjective tests, when requirements change, ad-hoc tests Tests you will only run once

7. How automation Catch Bugs?

   • Testing the bugs that have already been reported, or testing the functionality of what we want to work, we should always double check.

8. Reports, metrics

   • Effectively analyze test result through their different parameters. this report can help in multiple ways, by detecting the bugs earlier in the cycle, they also make the analyze easier as they have detailed information about failure reason, error, etc.

9. Automation myths

   • Automation can completely replace manual testing. Automated test scripts are not necessary: everything can be done manually.
   • Automation is time consuming. Automation is easy Automation is just to identify bugs.

10. Continuous testing

    • Is the process of incorporating automated feedback at different stages of the SDLC. Continuous testing is a critical factor behind the effectiveness of CI/CD processes.