and Testing
Manually testing all workflows, fields, negative scenarios is is time-consuming and costly.
Manually testing multilingual sites can be challenging.
Automation does not require human intervention and can be set to run overnight unattended.
Automation allows for quick test execution.
Automation helps increase Test Coverage.
Manual Testing is tedious and can result in human error.
1. Here are some benefits of Automated Testing:
- Faster Feedback
- Accelerated Results
- Reduced Business Expenses
- Testing Efficiency Improvement
- Higher Overall Test Coverage
- Reusability of Automated Tests
- Earlier Detection of Defects
- Thoroughness in Testing
- Faster Time-to-Market
- Information Security
2. Choosing the Optimal Automation Tool
Selecting the right tool can be difficult. Refer to the following list of criteria, which will help you select the best tool for your requirement.
- Environment Support
- Ease of use
- Testing of Database
- Object identification
- Image Testing
- Error Recovery Testing
- Object Mapping
- Scripting Language Used
- Support for various types of test - including functional, test management, mobile, etc...
- Support for multiple testing frameworks
- Easy to debug the automation software scripts
- Ability to recognize objects in any environment
- Extensive test reports and results
- Minimise training cost of selected tools
Tool selection represents one of the most challenging hurdles that must be overcome before implementing automation. The first step is to Identify the requirements, explore various tools and its capabilities, define clear expectation from the tool and go for a Proof Of Concept.
Selecting the right automation tool, testing process, and team, are important steps that must be considered with care for automation to be successful. Manual and automation methods go hand-in-hand for successful testing.
Katalon
Katalon Studio is an automation testing solution that is intuitive and scalable. It is built on top of open-source automation frameworks and has a specialised IDE interface for web, API, mobile and desktop application testing. Katalon’s easy to use interface makes it suitable for any team at any level of coding proficiency.
Postman
Postman is a scalable API testing tool which can be quickly integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Many of its features help to simplify the steps needed to build an API, so teams can collaborate and build APIs faster.