How to Implement Test Automation testing

 

You have just started a brand new role in a company and the first task you have in front of you is to implement test automation.

Now, the company has never done any test automation and now rely on mixed methods to test and measure quality.

Where do you start and how do you start such an important task? I'm glad you asked.

We will talk about the general, basic concepts surrounding test automation - are not a specific tool or framework that you need to use because they will vary based on what your organization's unique needs.

 

1. Do not dive straight

First: many people try and start to just go ahead and try to automate any test that is currently being done manually. The general scenario is that they have test cases or test that they had to walk all the time, so the dive and automate them immediately.

The problem with that is we do not really know if any of these tests are any good or even worth saving in the first place. Just because they are there now does not mean it's something that we have to go and automate. Those tests can easily become a relic of the old version that no one thought to remove (and believe us we have seen a lot of them!).

2. Map of how you are when testing

Even before you start diving into any automation, actually to begin mapping the preference of how you are doing testing.

You need to understand the current approach to testing and then work out the best place to integrate automated test.

A good place to start in many companies are to create the data because you will need that for the automatic inspection of your (and to test you).

 

3. Have a clear final destination

The end goal should be to understand what happened on what needs to test the 'state' and then automate the application in which you can be in their 'country'. For example, you may need to discover / crowdsourced testing on the 'state' of the application and regression in the other 'state'. Both types of tests require different types of automation.

However, if you just jump automate, you can easily cause hurt where it is unnecessary and slows down the process.

From our experience, we see many new dive beginners to automate their skillset any possible without fully grasping how things have been done and assess the appropriate way to automation is implemented based on the stage (or 'state') for this application.

4. Use existing development language

In terms of language development, you have to go with whatever pile built-in, and there are advantages to this (first, the developers will thank you). You also will be able to accelerate the automation level of coverage and move more quickly (you will also have the opportunity to leverage a tool like Chef and Puppet to increase the level of CI if you are familiar with the language you're comfortable with).

For example, think of mobile applications. If you move to a company that has a mobile app, the first place you would start is to understand how you distribute environmental testing applications to the device, because it's something that you're testing team will perform throughout the day.

So, start by automating the deployment of applications so you can quickly get a lot of versions of the the device, and then go from there. Many of the application logic is in the API, so that then go and see automate something at the API level and work your way from time to time.

5. Change the mindset of your automation

You also need to think about automation that the team itself can resolve. Look putting in plans to unit tests, integration tests, and deployment of the pipeline as well.

One of the biggest misconceptions people on automated testing is that it is about automation tools when it is about the mindset you need to automate where and when you need it.

Technical skillset, while important, will not give you the knowledge to know what is important to apply and what is not important.

Conclusion

Basically, test automation for every company comes to choosing the areas most impacted to automate.

Remember me tips Test Automation How To Perform For The First Time:

1. Do not dive straight

2. Map of how you are when testing

3. Have a clear final destination

4. Use existing development language

5. Change the mindset of your automation

Understanding how the test works in your company and then build a roadmap where automation can help would be the best approach you. It gives you the building.

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