What Is The Need for Automation?

What is Automation Testing?

Test automation is the use of software to control the execution of tests, the comparison of actual outcomes to predicted outcomes, the setting up of test preconditions, and other test control and testingreporting functions.

• Re – Testing
• Regression
• Repeatability
• Reusability
• Fast
• Comprehensive
• Reliable
• Programmable

What Is The Need for Automation?

Automation testing is needed in regression/retesting phase to do repetitive and large amount of data to be executed and also it can avoid human errors while doing repetative tasks.

Testers are being asked to test more and more functionalities in less and less time. Test automation is one way to do this, as manual testing is time consuming. It will reduce time as different versions of software are released, the new features will have to be tested manually time and again. But, now there are tools available that help the testers in the automation of the GUI which reduce the test time as well as the cost;