QA Automation Testing Services: The Future of Software Testing

January 11, 2023
Jaya Ghosh

Testing an application or software is an essential step in the product development process. Organizations repeat various tests in the development cycle to ensure the best quality. Across the globe, technical teams use manual and QA automation testing services for testing applications and software. Though organizations use automated testing for some processes they mainly depend on manual testing.

However, executing manual tests involve a lot of human effort. Manual testing is prone to human errors and is difficult to execute on different platforms. In today’s era, organizations cannot compromise on speed and time. With markets getting competitive, companies require evolving to deliver their products faster. To attain quicker development cycles, using test automation tools for testing has become a necessity. Test automation enables testers to perform numerous lengthy test cases while increasing the depth of tests to augment the quality of applications.

What is Automated Testing?

Automated testing or QA automation includes automating the testing of software applications and mobile apps using automation tools. QA automation tools can be leveraged to automate manual testing tasks that earlier required the intervention of a human tester. In other words, QA automation empowers the software testing team to focus on complex test cases by saving their precious time.

So, how does QA automation work? QA automation makes use of testing scripts that can be constantly executed. QA automation tools perform testing and report the results of testing through predefined actions to the testing team.

Automated testing has transformed the software development landscape. Listed below are some of the major benefits of automated testing that helps organizations pace up their testing and development processes:

Quicker Feedback Cycle: Test automation allows organizations to reduce the time required to complete a feedback cycle for the features of new software. When testers are able to provide quick input to the development team about the software then it would be easy for the developers to quickly fix the bugs in the code in the development stage. By increasing the feedback cycle speed, organizations can eliminate the risk of releasing bugged software.

Multiple Platforms Testing: Another important thing that needs to be considered during the software development process is cross-browser compatibility. With several browsers around, testing software manually on all browsers isn’t easy. Testers can use numerous test cases using test automation tools to perform cross-browser software testing on various browsers, devices, and operating systems simultaneously and quickly.

Re-usability of Scripts: Since developing test cases requires a lot of time and effort, test script reusability is a significant advantage of automation testing. However, testers have to create different test scripts for every cross-browser test for testing new operating systems or devices. The reusability of test scripts allows testers to better optimize their time.

Data-driven Testing: One of the significant benefits of automation testing is data-driven testing. In this type of testing, testers can analyze all functionalities including several data sets. Some of the crucial benefits of data-driven testing that empower testers to accelerate the delivery pipeline include reusing actions and functions in testing, reducing the number of test cases and scripts, and storing test and verification data in a single file while separating them from test logic.

Test Insights: In manual testing, testers require sharing the test inputs with each other manually. This will help them understand the number of scripts that have been written and the errors that have been fixed. This might create confusion among the testers and delay the entire process. The insights generated using automation tools can assist the testing team in tracking everything, which reduces the chances of human error. These insights can also help testers to plan their testing process.

Maximum Coverage: For testers, it’s very challenging to achieve 100% test coverage, especially for complex applications. This is very difficult to attain in manual testing as it is very difficult to manage many test cases simultaneously. Automating the testing processes using test automation tools can aid testers by providing more test coverage, and assisting in testing features such as databases, UI, servers, and more. These tools will help in improving the quality of applications without disturbing the functionality.

24/7 Execution of Tests: One of the significant benefits of automation testing is the flexibility to execute testing 24/7 as it empowers testers to schedule testing at any point in time. This isn’t possible in manual testing as it requires human effort. Testing teams can leverage automated testing tools to generate detailed reports with insights into the tests that have been run for application analysis at any time.

Low Cost and Better Utilization of Resources: Though, automation testing can be a large investment for businesses, it reduces the operational cost through proper utilization of resources. Businesses require a small workforce to execute the testing process using test automation tools. In fact, companies can utilize their resources to perform strategic activities such as planning, product management, etc. while helping organizations attain efficiency and profitability.

Improve the Quality of Manual Testing: Since many testing processes cannot be accomplished without human supervision, automating certain activities can enable testers to enhance the quality of applications while reducing the time to market. In fact, certain test automation tools can be used to validate manual testing and ease the stress of manual testers so that they are left with sufficient time to innovate and transform.

Achieve Great ROI: Developing and launching applications using manual testing requires considerable time. Additionally, due to repetitive manual testing, the release of software may get delayed, which might affect the ROI of an organization. Since all the repetitive operations can be automated using automated testing, product release time can be shortened thereby resulting in a greater return on investment.

Final words:

Automation testing is the future of software testing and requires the right blend of proper planning and test automation tools. Given the evolving software market, more and more organizations are shifting to a hybrid testing environment instead of a complete manual testing environment toto leverage the benefits of automated testing like quicker releases, automating repetitive tasks, enhanced test coverage, 24×7 availability, and more.

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Jaya Ghosh

Jaya is a content marketing professional with more than 10 years of experience into technical writing, creative content writing and digital content development. Her decade long experience lends her the ability to create content for multiple channels and across different technology verticals.

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