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With all respect to manual testing, test automation is the future and the way to go. No more having manual testing skills only, is enough to penetrate tough job market. While there will always be test scenarios that are cheaper and faster to execute manually, the majority of trivial tasks can be automated. The best […]
Rate and Amount of Change Automation of stable software applications where changes from release to release are minimal are better supported by commercial tools such as QTP and SilkTest. In fact, automating of application that going through constant changes considered a bad practice – a monkey job, when every new build causes your automation scripts […]
Software Complexity. On one side we have simple stand alone applications (aka Notepad, MS Word, desktop games), while on another side of the spectrum are highly integrated client-server/web applications with N-Layer distributed architecture. The latter might contain hundreds of pages, thousands of modules/functions and hundreds of thousands or millions lines of code. Relatively small, straightforward […]
Delivery Methodology While there are quite a few delivery methodologies and many company adopt their own, the main players are Waterfall and Agile. Test automation is usually starts when development of new functionality is completed. Commercial automation tool dependent on the GUI and if latter is not implemented, automation simply cannot be started. That means […]
The solution for proper selection of the tool is to consider and evaluate the following 4 criterions: – Company Culture – Delivery Methodology – Software Complexity – Rate & Amount of Change Each criterion is equally important in making decision Company culture Company organizational culture could be divided to 5 levels according Compatibility Maturity Models […]
Which one to choose? It is really the million dollar question and it is more relevant than ever. Advantages of Commercial Tools (aka QTP or SilkTest): Build-in integration with Test Management utilities (HP QC or SilkTest Central Manager). Such integration covers Requirements, Test Cases, Defects, Metrics/Reports Customizable Requires beginners/intermediate level of scripting/programming skills (which means it can be normally done by […]