Saturday, September 7, 2013

Automation Testing


Why Automation Testing is Important - Over the time number of features in any application grows very rapidly while test case doesn't grow with that speed if you don't go with either option1 or option2 (if other please suggest)
Feature and Test Over Time
Option 1 # Have more resources for testing, increase test cycle time
Option 2 # Go for Automation testing to avoid the repetitive work

I have seen some instances where people feel that Automation testing is killing jobs for manual test engineer, Automation testing is important aspect but it can never replace the manual testing. A test program can be never be as intelligent as human being.

If you are building an application where customer experience is key, I personally suggest to test the new feature manually first time and use automation to avoid retesting old features again and again.   In software world there are two kind of people one who believe 100% automation, 0% manual testing and one who go with my thoughts.

Thoughts ?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You are Spot on Dev. Automation of features at the very first go is No-No. It loses what Human eye can feel, catch..