Benefits of Automation Testing
While implementing automation testing can be difficult and time consuming, it offers many benefits to teams that do make use of it.
First and foremost, automation testing reduces the amount of time that a team must spend testing a software product. After they are initially created, automation tests only change as the software changes. Instead of having to go back and test every old feature for every code change, testers can focus on only testing the newest features. For large and complex software products, the burden of testing all current features can be massive. Using automation for this purpose ensures that the team has adequate resources to continue new development.
In addition to reducing the burden on testers, automation tests can be even more reliable than human testers. Going through hundreds or thousands of monotonous procedures might cause a tester to accidentally miss a small bug. Since automation testing treats the first test the same as the thousandth test, it consistently reports even the most minor deviations from the expected result.
Since testers often focus on testing new features, it may be some time before they are able to ensure older features still work. With automation testing, problems with old features are detected just as quickly as errors from new features. If code changes do break old functionality, automated regression tests should quickly identify this issue and notify the team. Instead of accidentally pushing broken features to production, developers know that if their code passed the automation tests, every feature still works properly.
Recommended Further Reading
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