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With the enormous business competition existing today, enterprises are in need of faster
releases and quality software to meet the increasing demand of their services and products.
Many of them are embracing agile and DevOps practices to achieve faster releases and
quality products along with achieving quicker return on investment. Typically, for these agile
and DevOps processes, test automation and essentially the automated software testing
forms an integral part of their software testing process.
Automated Software testing is the methodology that helps to validate the functioning of the
software before it is moved to production. In this process, automated testing tools are used
by the QA teams for executing the test scripts.
Katalon Studio
This is an open-source test automation tool used for mobile and web applications. It is a
package of powerful features effectively used to overcome the challenges faced in web UI
test automation. Some of the other features are its support for image-based testing, and
supports scripting languages like Java, Groovy, etc.
Selenium
It is available as an open-source tool and is a publicly accessible and most popular test
automation framework used for performing web application testing across different
platforms and browsers. Testers can write test cases by using various programming
languages such as PHP, C#, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, etc.
TestComplete
This is an easy-to-use test automation tool and can be used to perform automation across
mobile, web and desktop applications. With its eminent feature of record-and-replay and
object identification engine, testers can create complicated automated test scripts without
the need for coding. This tool supports several scripting languages such as JavaScript,
Python, VBScript, etc.
Testsigma
This is an AI driven important test automation tool that uses simple English language to
automate complex tests. This tool is used to automate web, mobile and API services and is
best suited for smart automation initiatives of enterprises. It is best suited for today’s agile
and DevOps processes to support continuous integration and continuous delivery needs of
businesses.
IBM Rational Functional Tester
This is an automation testing tool developed by IBM. With this tool, testers can perform
automated functional testing, data-driven testing, regression testing. Some of the
programming languages it supports are Java and VB.Net. This tool efficiently works on
different environments such as Java, PowerBuilder, Flex, Dojo, etc.
Watir
It is an open-source testing tool enriched with Ruby libraries for automated web application
testing. With this tool, testers can run test cases in any language-based web application. The
tool can be used to perform cross-browser testing, and also to validate web page forms,
links, buttons, etc.
As already mentioned, the automated software testing uses open source and paid test
automation tools to test applications quickly and more efficiently 24x7 without any human
intervention. It takes up different testing approaches and replaces several tasks of manual
testers and ensures to improve the overall test coverage effectively. Within this software
testing method, pre-written scripts are tested to ensure quality software is released. Thus, it
plays an important role for delivering quality software at a faster speed and essentially
reduces the regression testing time.
The benefits have been broadly classified as Application-Wise benefits
and Cost-wise benefits.
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WHAT IS AUTOMATED SOFTWARE TESTING?
WHY
AUTOMATED SOFTWARE
TESTING IS IMPORTANT?
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF
AUTOMATED SOFTWARE TESTING?
WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMONLY USED
AUTOMATED TESTING TOOLS?
AUTOMATED
SOFTWARE TESTING –
WHAT, WHY, TOOLS,
CHALLENGES
Cost-Wise Benefits
Increases test coverage
Saves Cost
Increases ROI
Saves Time
Ensures test accuracy
Eases regression testing
time
Facilitates with
re-usable test scripts
Helps to Validate Complex
Scenarios effectively
Application-Wise Benefits
Katalon Studio
Selenium
TestComplete
Testsigma
IBM Rational
Functional
Tester
Watir
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WHAT ARE THE COMMON CHALLENGES IN
AUTOMATED TESTING?
Need to maintain effective communication between teams
For the success of test automation in agile and DevOps practices, there should be proper and
effective communication between the QA, developers and operations teams to ensure faster
releases and at the same time ensure test automation success.
Critical to Select the right test automation tool
For any automated testing to be successful, it is essential to select the right automated
testing tool based on the application under test. As there are many open source and paid
automation testing tools available, businesses can select the tool based on the application
separately for web, mobile, and for API’s testing.
Adopt a proper and effective testing approach
Not only should QA choose the right test automation tool, but should also follow effective
and best practices of test automation to ensure its success.
Analyze tests to be automated
It is essential for the QA to think and analyse the cases that can be automated. Automation
works the best when testers know which are the cases to automate and which should not be
automated.
CONCLUSION
Enterprises and businesses continue to demand for faster releases and quality products.
Software testing plays an important role in enabling quality products. It is essential to test
the applications early to identify the bugs and ensure the delivery timelines are met. Though
manual testing has been on demand earlier, but now with complex applications and
connected devices in place, automated software testing is an effective practice being used
for improving the test efficiency and test coverage.