Test Automation

Poor-quality software applications increase costs, impact revenue and negatively affect reputation.

Organizations must optimize the quality of increasingly complex software applications more quickly and cost-effectively than ever before to deliver the winning solutions that yield a high ROI and drive competitive advantage.

While testing does not guarantee quality it is a crucial part of the lifecycle quality process. Software test automation can reduce redundant, manual testing while maximizing repeatability and test accuracy to improve the breadth of testing. And while test automation already provides many benefits in traditional development environments, agile development methodologies make the use of test automation essential.

Automate to increase efficiencies

Test automation can accelerate the testing cycle and promote software quality. Automating regression tests and other repetitive tasks releases QA personnel to expand their quality efforts. That means they can increase test coverage by extending automation to parts of the application that may not have been thoroughly tested in prior releases. The use of data-driven automation approaches and frameworks further increases testing efficiency and can underpin effective configuration testing.

Advantages of test automation

Automated testing delivers the following long-term advantages:

• Reusability – Test automation does not require users to start from scratch with each new testing effort. Reusable tests will run more frequently, enabling personnel to find and fix more errors earlier in the development process and build libraries of repeatable test assets – in effect, transforming each test into intellectual property with long-term value.
• Predictability and consistency – QA using test automation can rerun a test with the utmost consistency, critical when development team[s?] create a new build. Regression tests quickly verify whether pre-existing functionality still works in the new version and provide early development feedback. The testing process itself also benefits from consistency: a repeatable process for documenting test results enables QA to reproduce and verify errors – accelerating the resolution process.
• Productivity – Automated testing creates a high productivity environment for organizations without requiring additional resources. For example, QA organizations can run unattended tests, 24/7, across multiple platforms, browsers and environments simultaneously, allowing personnel to concentrate on other quality issues. The resulting productivity gains have the dual effect of shortening test cycles and increasing opportunities to optimize software quality.
• Efficiency – Delivering easy-to-use test automation software that is accessible to users with differing levels of technical expertise enables different user roles to effectively contribute to testing in a coherent, managed, collaborative environment.

Collectively these automation advantages enable QA to accurately assess quality levels, make sound decisions regarding release readiness and minimize deployment risk. Find out more about:

• Test automation done the right way with Silk Test
• Powerful, easy, and cost-effective application performance testing with Silk Performer
• Efficient and powerful Test Management with Silk Central.

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