It had been a common question what are the main benefits of automation testing. In this post I will try to put in some efforts to consolidate and list the main benefits of automation testing.

Key benefits that effective automated testing can bring to you business:

  • Reduce the time spent on testing.
  • Reduce the money spent on testing.
  • Increase the overall productivity of your IT operation.
  • Improve the software application quality.
  • Increase the user and client confidence in your application.
  • Fast, consistent and accurate test results.
  • Supplements the human ability to find bugs.
  • Multiplatform support (Cross browser/OS/Database).
  • Repeatability.
  • Increased test coverage.
  • Environment setup.

Once the solution has been implemented we find the that the proportion of time companies save in their testing processes is routinely excess of 40%, frequently in excess of 60%, and sometimes in excess of 80%, and you can see where you can achieve impressive time and cost saving. With this saving you could:

  • Extend the scope of your testing
  • Re-assign and effectively utilize the resources
  • Implement more solution with the saved time.

So next question which could rattle our minds is how do we deliver this?

When implemented correctly test automaton can deliver huge benefits:

  • Faster data preparation.
  • Reusable test process.
  • Retraceable library of test results.
  • Test runs reduced form days to hours.
  • The ability to build several scripts in to single ‘superscript’.
  • The addition of variable data set.

This all enables your team to do more testing, and produce higher quality software application.

Testing is regarded by many as boring when it is repetitive and a chore. But through effective automation you can:

  • Bring life to testing.
  • Make it easier and more accessible.
  • Dispel the boring and repetitive image.
  • Make testing fun!!!

Why is this important?

Because it means that the quantity- as well as the quality – of testing will increase as the motivational barriers are removed and the depth of your testing and overall quality of your system increases, you actually begin to have more confidence in your system and you have the ability to test things quickly, repeatedly and easily that you were not able to do earlier.

This confidence spreads beyond the IT department; it can be felt by the entire business and, beyond this, by your customers. Their confidence in you is crucial for your business, and one of the means to do this is automated testing.

Any thing I missed?

Sachin Srivastava

Quality Analyst

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