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)

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 ?

WCF Service Testing

Recently I got chance to test few WCF Services. I found WCFTestClient.exe with visual studio which is good for testing services which take simple data type as input parameter but it doesn't support complex data types

After spending few hours on google.com and trying various tools, i found WcfStorm as a very useful utility. it's lite version is free!
it supports complex data types as well. apart from function test you do performance testing as well.
see below screen shot:

WCF Storm made my testing simple now I don't have to write client for testing any WCF service.