Test Automation: Planning and Winning

by Nataliia Vasylyna | July 8, 2016 8:18 am

Even the biggest haters of QA automation cannot fail to acknowledge that a reasonable and consistent approach to automated testing[1] can bring great benefits to a software testing company.

The following are brief recommendations on how to plan and execute test automation in a best possible way and perform effective mobile testing[2] or website testing.

What Are the Steps to Successful Test Automation?

• Make sure that project managers approve the automation initiative. Given that test automation consumes a lot of time and finances, the involvement of business people is essential.
• Prepare a sketch plan describing the features that are to be automated, approach to their automation, and approximate time for each task.
• Analyze the system and determine the areas to be automated in the first place. Project managers can significantly help with that.
• Determine the features that are rarely modified. Those are good candidates for practicing the automated test scripts creation.
• Describe your tests, explain what functionalities and scenarios they cover.
• Control both manual and automated test efforts. This will help to demonstrate the benefits of QA automation to project managers and business analysts.
• Try to write as simple test scripts as possible. The simpler they are, the easier it is to reuse them in future.
• Make project managers aware that test automation is not a fix-all strategy. It doesn’t eliminate all quality issues, but at the competent approach it can be very beneficial.

These recommendations will help not to fail system testing[3], load testing, performance testing, etc., and make the best of them.

Related Posts:

• When Does Your Project Need Test Automation?[4]
• Software Test Automation: Problems and Tips[5]
• How to Choose a Tool for Automated Testing?[6]

Source URL: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2016/07/08/test-automation-planning/

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