Automation testing involves a lot of investment in terms of time, effort, money, resources, and skills. Careful planning is essential before you dive in.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Businesses rely on automation testing to keep up with faster and higher-quality processes that agile development demands. There are many benefits of automation testing, such as reducing costs, avoiding delays, and helping to create a great customer experience. Unplanned or ad hoc testing can lead to discrepancies and issues that will directly affect the business deliverables. Testing is an essential part of product development, so businesses need to have tests ever-ready. Developers have always been finding bugs and resolving issues, but no matter how experienced you are in solving such problems, there will be some bugs that you can never catch on your own. Testers use regression testing to stabilize the product for faster releases and quickly fix issues after migrating the code to the production environment. Automation testing has numerous benefits in comparison to manual testing. Automating increases the effectiveness of processes, expedites execution, and maximizes test coverage. It further removes chances of repetitive mistakes/tasks by testers, reduces human error, and provides instant feedback for quick resolution of issues, which improves overall efficiency in all activities. Let’s explore the advantages of automation testing in software development in detail as we move further. In simple terms, it is a testing process that uses automation tools to execute different test cases and perform actions on software applications. Automation testing tools capture the test results and create reports based on those results. This information can be used for comparison and figuring out the differences, if any. Automation testing involves a lot of investment in terms of time, effort, money, resources, and skills to reap the maximum benefits. But with strong test planning, businesses can make it a favorable investment. Let’s explore a few advantages of automation testing to clear the air about its suitability to your business. Automation testing helps minimize the feedback cycle for every new element of the software application. The sooner the development team receives feedback from testers, the sooner the development team can fix the issues in the code, eliminating the risks of releasing glitch applications to the market. It helps in expediting the process of implementation of new changes in product development. Early detection of issues enables testers to rectify them on time and increase the efficiency of the team. Faster feedback also improves the internal communication among developers, testers, designers, and other stakeholders. It allows them to take immediate action on any potential risks detected. Reusability of test scripts is considered one of the most beneficial features of automation testing. Testers have to be skilled enough to create successful test cases because writing test cases requires a lot of time and effort. It becomes more painful when the testers have to write them repeatedly. That is where automation comes in. It enables testers to write reusable test scripts. Whenever there is a requirement of testing a different operating system or device, testers write unique test scripts each time they perform cross-browser testing. But reusability of the automated test scripts helps testers utilize their time in carrying out critical tasks.
