What should consider before implement Test Automation

Suppose, you are working in a project as manual tester and you are enjoying the working. One day, your QA manager share client's thinking and they are expecting to integrate Automation Testing in the projects as a regression test. So, your manager requested you to plan for Automation Testing. Now it's your turn how you can manage and plan for automation efficiently.

Before implement test automation, you have to face some of the questions and have to consider some of the factors whether it is best fit for the current system or not.

• Are you thinking of 100% automation?
• Is your application is stable enough to automate further testing work?
• Automate testing procedure when you have lot of regression work
• Think about skilled resources
• Identify what test cases to automate
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Stable enough application
  • Complex calculation
  • Which require regular set up of environment
  • Things which are difficult for human
  • Task requiring multiple data sets
  • Apply common sense!

Test Automation Introduction

As a career of software tester, we all need to know the basic understanding of software test automation. There are good numbers of tools (Selenium, Telerik Test Studio, Robotium, QTP, TestComplete) to do the automation and there are multiple language (Java, C-Sharp, Python, Ruby) support.

Here, I will go further with Selenium and the language is Java. Selenium is a software testing framework for web applications. There are multiple components (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid) of Selenium. First one, Selenium IDE which is implemented as a Firefox Add-On, and it allows recording, editing, and debugging tests. The work around of Selenium IDE is not vast. It is less maintained and is only compatible with Selenium RC, which is deprecated product right now.

Selenium WebDriver (Selenium 2.0) implemented as a successor of Selenium RC. It has browser-specific browser driver, which launch the browser, sends commands, and retrieves results from browser application. Selenium 2.0 is supported in Python, Ruby, Java, and C#. So, we can write code according to our familiar languages.

Happy Coding! :)