Is Automated Testing Actually Important?

Posted by ImpactQA on August 3rd, 2018

Why?
Software companies around the world are very much aware of the fact that why and to what extent testing is crucial for their software’s quality as well as their reputation in the industry. To retain it, they test their products through different testing processes or hire firms who provide best-in-class functional testing services, yet their final product has some defects and errors. Professional testers strive to catch them before launching or delivering the product still they often reappear and ruin the user experience, even with the effective manual testing processes.
Now, that’s the case with manual testing. After considering these facts about manual, automation was brought into the picture to save time as well as respect in the market. Automation testing process is the most ideal way to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and coverage of your software testing
 
How Manual Testing is done?
Basically, as the name explains, manual testing is done by a tester sitting in front of a system and carefully going through each and every screen of the application, performing various techniques and usage inputs and combinations to find as many errors and glitches as possible. The results are compared with the expected end product and recorded for future reference. During development cycles, the manual tests are performed often again circumstances such as changes in source codes or improvement in hardware configurations.
Undoubtedly, it calls for more time, effort and constant concentration. As tests are done by humans, there are strong possibilities for mistakes.
 
How Automation Testing picked up the baton?
Where in manual testers have to perform all the tests again and again, in automation, the predefined and preloaded tests can be played back, comparing observations with expected end result and reporting the success or failure of manual tests to a test engineer. Once automated tests are created, they can be practiced as many times without any hassle and extended to a certain level impossible with manual tests. Because of its qualities and effective results, many savvy managers and company owners have started availing automated functional testing services and have found it a crucial component of successful software/application development programs.
 
How Automation Testing is Beneficial
 
Saves Time and Monies
To ensure quality and standard of a product, software tests are constantly repeated in development stage. Now that asks for time and money which ideally postpones our release and harms expectations of customers. Automation tests can be created and run over and over again as per the requirements without any additional costs at a much faster pace.
 
Improves Test Coverage
Automation testing is used to improve the application’s quality and to check it deeply for any possible errors and defects. It can also be used on multiple operating systems with diverse configurations, making it convenient and effective.
 
Gets Accuracy As Expected
During monotonous manual testing processes, even the most conscientious software testers can make mistakes and miss errors in an application. By using automation testing, one can test the product precisely every single time and record detailed stats without forgetting.

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