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Although, automated testing and manual testing both have contributed significantly inassuring a product’s quality successfully, with more businesses opting for the agile style ofdevelopment, the scope for test automation has definitely gone up. There is an increasingdemand for newer areas to be automated, newer tools to improve the process and more testengineers to be trained for the job. A test automation process should always be a plannedone, otherwise, it will end up in being a mammoth suite which is difficult to maintain andmanage.

Only an extensive testing process can ensure the quality of a system and this is why softwaretesting services are in great demand. Testing begins with innovations and creating newdimensions and redefining. New testing processes and methodologies are created to meetthe demands and exceed the expectations. Let’s identify the potential areas of automationand dimensions of efficient Automation Testing.

The products of every software development group are tested but they may have defects.Test engineers attempt to catch the software defects before the product is released. Yet,even with the best of manual testing processes they often reappear. An automated testingcan playback pre-recorded and predefined actions, make comparison of the results toexpected behaviour and report failure or success of manual tests to a test engineer. Theautomation tests, once created, can be repeated easily and they can be broadened to dothose tasks which are impossible with manual testing. This is why automated softwaretesting is a necessary element of any successful development project. It is the best way toincrease the efficiency, coverage and effectiveness of your software testing.

The test automation is aimed at achieving faster time to market, increasing test coverage andimproving the productivity of test team. Considering the immense value of automatedsoftware testing and the challenges it poses, a methodical and planned test automationapproach is emphasized on. For the major providers of automation testing services and tools,Test automation is one of the major focus areas for ongoing research and development andthis helps them to build their own IP to use on their client projects for maximising value andminimising costs.

Some of the core challenges for any test automation effort are lack of trained testautomation engineers, rising test environment costs, insufficient end to end test coverage,complex test data and test maintenance efforts particularly in an agile product life cycle.

The Automation Testing solution providers maintain a balance between the test automationchallenges and an ideal software test automation framework to create their own opensource based test automation solution.

The major features of test automation framework include, Wiki style web interface for testauthoring, test execution and result gathering; open source tools for application automation;page object pattern; virtualisation for managing test run environments; remote testexecution for parallel execution and test run optimisation; pluggable ant and mavenintegration for CI reporting. By leveraging this framework successfully, enhanced testautomation efficiencies are brought in and test productivity and coverage for various clientsare improved.

The software testing service providers come with expertise in automating by making use ofcommercial tools from HP, IBM, Borland, SmarteSoft, Apple apart from their own IP built onopen source technologies. This helps them partner with their clients to offer the breadth anddepth in test automation. The test automation framework is largely used for functionaltesting for their clients, although variants for other fields of test like content digitisationtesting and localisation testing have also been used by them.

E2E test automation strategy design and implementation, automation component scripting,automation framework implementation, automation tools comparative analysis andimplementation, automated build verification, automated regression test suite creation,automated defect reporting and governance.

An efficient software testing provider with an experience of working on various testautomation models, design customised solutions to meet their specific needs. Improved testcoverage and productivity is achieved with cutting edge tools. At QA InfoTech, some of thecore focus areas have remained mobile and performance test automation and definitelyfunctional test automation. All these are aimed at improved test coverage at lower prices forthe clients.