Automation testing - the definition

 

Automation testing is no longer a rarity in software development; somewhat, it has become an everyday epidemic. SHIFT ASIA understands that finding the perfect blend of convenience and quality can be hard to achieve. We have become industry leaders by offering comprehensive services to our clients and sophisticated tools for high-end projects – ensuring utmost reliability when outsourcing automation tests in not only vulnerability assessment, but also in software quality assurance and more.

Manual testing is often found complicated and time-consuming and no longer stays up to market demand. In this race against other competitors, outsourcing IT services especially quality assurance and software test automation services are popular amongst the software development industry.

What is automation testing?

Automation Testing is a process of testing software and other tech products using automated testing tools to ensure they meet the product’s set-defined requirements. It executes automatic tests to verify code for bugs, defects, and any other issues that might have happened in the product development process.

Being automatic is an advantage as testers can run testing at any time of the day. After examining the software, it reports what it found and compares it with the test runs. Automation testing has been gradually adopted and favored by software testers. In a recent report of Kobiton on the State of Software Test Automation 2022-23, 97% of respondents admitted that they have been using some form of automation in their software quality testing daily. They are willing to implement automated tests on a much bigger scale than before to yield and embrace the benefits of automation testing, such as the following.

The advantages of automation testing

Cost and time reduction

With automation testing, tests can be run 24/7 repeatedly at no additional cost. It helps track down bugs, defects, and malfunctions faster in the early stages. Hence, getting them sorted out immediately, saving resources, cutting down the enormous expenses, and avoiding the exponential cost of fixing bugs later on, heavily impacts the product functionalities, user journeys, and the product time release itself.

Parallel and continuous testing

Test automation enables testing to be run continuously without getting interrupted while allowing the execution of separate test automation scripts simultaneously. Each script consumes different resources, which optimizes your testing process and improves the testing practices. This means testing involved during and throughout the product development process, in place of solving the bottleneck at the end of the development cycle.

Scalability and time-to-market

Many might have believed costs are the #1 advantage of automation testing. In reality, test automation aims to enhance the customer experience on the products, improving product functionalities and speeding up the product’s time-to-market. Manual testing takes anywhere from 3-5 days to complete, but only 3-6 hours with automation testing (according to Kobiton’s report).

Automation testing offers great scalability where training and getting additional testers involved are unnecessary. Tests can be implemented in a matter of minutes, and this tremendously shortens the production delivery timeline, meaning faster product time-to-market