Automated Software Testing

Automated Software Test is for QA Testing using appropriate Software Testing Tools. Software testing at many companies has matured as lessons have been learned about the most effective test methodologies. Computers have taken over many functions in our society that were once "manual" operations. Factories use computers to control manufacturing equipment and have cut costs enormously. Electronics manufacturing use computers to test everything from microelectronics to circuit card assemblies.

Automated Software Test uses an automatic software testing tools that will generally avoid the errors that humans make when they get tired after multiple repetitions. The test program won't skip any tests by mistake. The test program can also record the results of the test accurately. The results is fed into a database that provides useful statistics on how well the software development process is going. Automated software testing is never a complete substitute for manual testing and is used for QA Testing.

Automated Software Test is useful as some companies are quite satisfied with the developer testing his own work. Testing your own work is generally thought of as risky since you'll be likely to overlook bugs that someone not so close to the code (and not as subjective) will see easily. As soon as the developer says it's done they ship it. The other extreme is the company that has its own automatic software test group as well as a group that tests the software manually.

Success in QA Testing requires careful planning and design work. Although it should not be considered as replacement for manual testing but as an enhancement. Automated Software Test has benefits that are worthwhile such as repeatability and time savings especially when done right. From a project perspective, these software testing tools have four main areas to consider: deciding to automate your testing, installation, training, and scheduling tasks.

Automated Software Test actually does not provide time-saving benefits because any time saved is given to the time spent in installing, training, and first test case development. As the system progresses into system test, that is when time is saved. And more time is saved during maintenance and enhancement of the system. Project Management should always be used to plan the implementation of these software testing tools. Without these, QA Testing and any other automated software test implementations have failed. The complex nature of automated software test will result in culture change, role change and process change.

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