5 Expert-Recommended Tips for Improving Test Automation Outcomes

To keep pace with the agile development methodology, test automation is one of the ways to enhance the speed of delivery. This is why test automation is one of the most crucial activities in the software product development life cycle. Just as businesses cannot afford to deliver products late, they also cannot afford to deliver the wrong product. To manage this balance automation of testing procedures takes priority for businesses. This is why business organizations are now focussing on different ways to automate their testing procedure and achieve that product delivery deadline.

To help you improve your test automation strategy, we bring you this article which highlights 5 important tips that can improve your test automation and yield better results.

So let’s begin.

1. Decide what needs to be automated

For the success of any test automation project, it is very much important to be clear about things that can be automated in the product. It is always good to wait before starting test automation until the product is stable. An unstable product would throw more errors and all our efforts to introduce test automation in the project would go in vain.

2. Choose the correct tool and framework

Once we have decided to go ahead with the automation, the next step is to select the right automation tool which suits the need of the project. While deciding on the right tool for automation we can go through our requirements and check the offerings of various tools to look for the right match. We need to check for various parameters, like Cross-browser testing capabilities, technical support provided, pricing, ease of test execution, ease of developing scripts, and others before we take the decision to use the tool for automation.

3. Set a complete automation cycle.

We must understand that testing is not a siloed activity and we need to set the whole process right from deciding to implement automation to the integration of the CI/CD pipeline and delivering the results to the client. If we chose to ignore any of the steps, the automation activity would not deliver the desired results.

4. Defined plan for breadth and depth of test coverage

Based on our requirements we should be able to define a clear plan for covering the breadth and depth of testing the product. We should be defining our browsers and operating systems on which the product needs to be tested. Similarly, we should also be defining the type of testing (accessibility, component, E2E) we have to cover in the automation strategy.

5. Avoid automation mistakes

A wrong test automation approach can cause heavy losses and so we must try to avoid mistakes after choosing the test automation approach. Some of the automation testing mistakes include:

• Not following the best practices of automation tool usage
• Not having a team of dedicated automation testers
• Implementing automation on unstable product

Conclusion:

We have seen how late delivery of products can cause loss of customers, revenue, and market share. Automation testing can provide an advantage to the organization and save them from such losses. With the help of automation, we can provide rapid feedback to developers, perform unlimited iterations of test case execution, and support agile development methodologies.

As a leading Automation Testing Company, Testrig Technologies has supported various businesses and have automated their QA testing procedure thereby saving them from the catastrophic effects of delivering a defective product.

To know more about our Test Automation Services, contact Testrig Technologies.