Automated software testing

Automated software testing is the fastest and the most reliable way of testing. In a few words, it is robotic functional testing performed automatically. It is used in fast developed and large-scale projects. The main benefit of automated scripts is that once created they could run whenever you need automatically. Every build you could start playing scripts and wait until the results for no costs. That saves a lot of time, QA resource and money to get final results. Moreover, automated software testing is more reliable, efficient and faster than human manual check.

Automated software testing or not?

Automated functional software testing stands out from the most widely used ways of manual functional verification. Automated verification is used in web-based and windows-based applications development. Running automation means launch specific tool to perform predefined user like actions, steps, mouse clicks, keyboard types. The most tools provide comparing the result with expected value and create detailed report. The main advantage of automated testing is that scripts, created once could be executed each time during software changes. Automation saves a lot of stuff-hours on performing manual verification, so it is cost-effective. Automated code development is based on functional software testing. Usually automation tools are used to make regression verification, verify functionality of separate units or core application features. Since initial automation scripts development takes some time, outsourcing automated software testing to us will save a lot of money and time.

Scripts could contain separate verification code sets to perform particular automatic software unit verification.

Automated testing has the most efficiency in large and fast-developing software products as it safe costs for stuff resources. Automation execution is very fast, accurate and reliable. Usually automated testing service is used for Regression, Sanity, Compatibility, cross-platform and cross-browser verification.

Best use of automated testing:

Automated software testing advantages

When used automated testing?

If you have a group of developers, each of them work on separate task. At some time they have to merge code and build or publish a product. After that QA have to perform some kind of integration check. Automation saves a lot of time and efforts to perform checking of core functionality or perform sanity check. This kind of verification could be executed by developers before giving the code to QA or just schedule automated execution to night builds.

If your project is fast-growing and all the functionality could not be tested by small group of testers, automated code could be written to cover some functionalities. Later during further product evolution automation could be extended with new scripts that covers new functionalities. In case product is fast or frequently changing and has a lot of drops (builds, uploads, etc) automated software testing could save a lot of stuff-work of QA on performing test cases execution now and then.

Versioning environment could make harm to product using rollback and therefore revert fixed bugs. Executing automated tests after each build could result in saving time fixing already fixed bugs.

Sometimes large projects have so many different functions and features that QA department has to be as big as stadium. This case using flexible and well written automated software scripts could minimize expenses to buy a new building.

Flexibility and extensibility is feature of the most automated tools. So, automation engineer just has to increase code coverage of new features. Quality results are the fastest and the most reliable when using this approach. Powerful tools like HP Mercury QuickTest professional support functional regression, GUI, cross-platform, cross-browser and database check, in the other words functional plus compatibility verifications.

Writing automated scripts is the simple process for experienced people. The process just need test-cases and tested application or web-site URL.

Automatic application verification is an investment! Outsourcing automated software testing is a real profit.

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If you are interested in this kind of verification, please contact us or submit Free Project Evaluation form to get profit to your project and save money, time and nervous during development.

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