Automation, a cornerstone of every company is well tried, some of them fail but the success accomplishers pop-up with enhanced output quality. The importance of test automation approaches is getting on the minds of almost all the IT departments. Success is the next step that comes after we get a lesson from our failures. So, following are a few tracks that are opted by the Q-agile experts after push-back from the failures:
1.Plan Automation
After automating the test cases, you will come to a point realizing a fall in an occurrence of regression issues but have you forgot corner cases and the new issues? An experience-based, exploratory and fault strike tests will always be on the top in your requirement list.
So, until an acceptable value is added to the effort-ratio, you should plan to automate widely. Always keep in mind that a team of proficient functional testers should be hired that may invent innovative and new ways to find the bugs. The reduction in test execution time is a highly noticeable value in automation, but as per the facts, the top concern is keeping some time in a bag for the functional testers to discover new strategies for their testing and cover-up their areas.
2. Outline the Highest Coverage Plan
Today, in the tech language, can we just jot down, the completion with a word, “Done”. Is Instagram done? Is Twitter done? To stay relevant to the time, most of the new applications will always run on a track of UI/UX or functional changes and also the new features will be appended. So, the testing including test automation will never achieve completion. A plan can be framed to attain a set of regression tests. The automation velocity and efficiency can too be observed with growth. Within any piece of time, an expectation for 100% completion will sound unrealistic. The same is accepted in the story of coverage. After the fixed code freeze only, 100% coverage can be planned.
You may set a goal for the highest coverage, but you should keep a space to get healed from the changing behaviour of software. The automation should be accepted as a long-term engagement as it will its growth that is directly proportional to the product.
3. Work before End-to-End Tests
It will prove to be bulky performing e2e test automation on a GUI layer because UX/UI or functional changes will always order for refactoring, even on following the best process. Therefore, the best is to smell before.
So, before e2e over GUI, be sure about the implementation of automated unit tests for database layers and code, analysis of automated static code and automated API tests for the integration layers. And always stick to a line that, “no software is BUG-FREE ever”.
4. Perform ROI Analysis
Before coming to a decision, it is important that you should know about, your product thoroughly, offerings of the test automation solutions and their requirements back. The ROI analysis should always be carried out deeply.
5. Don’t Pick Outsourcing Testing
Sometimes, because of your good luck, outsourcing works even with immature SDLC and reporting/communication models. But, this may lead to more hassles like, reporting hassle, communication hassle, delayed reporting, and more.
It is better to work hard on making your process a grown-up, building a quality product, automation, conduct the delivery and keeping the check on wastage. At last, if a meticulous ROI analysis advises you to outsource the test automation, then you should!
6. Invest in Skill
On hiring a part-time team to guide the test automation towards a product may not pay back as expected. For a high-quality product, skilled root should be set. This can be achieved by employing full-time and dedicated testers.
Blending-up test automation and quality into the product will witness the top-quality mindset, good control over the productivity and best slots identification through data-analysis. Part-time engineers are fine to fulfil the temporary needs but for long-term engagement, a permanent team is a must. Always take your people as fixed assets, not the resources as these are the one you require to invest in.
CONCLUSION
At last, after extracting a healthy soup, we at Q-agile concludes:
- Efficiency and effectiveness are greatly dependent on the accumulation and analysis of data.
- Before ending with a point, the proper establishment of a solid strategy and detailed ROI analysis are vital.
- Document the mistakes and don’t forget to learn from them, this is the smooth pathway towards the improvement.
- Invest in a talented team and take it as your assets.