Like all
the other processes in the field the test automation process has also been
optimized and has reaped huge benefits.
- Test automation is carried out for the
manual testing processes employing formalized testing processes and this
automated test is then further optimized to make it much more effective.
- Test
automation is like any other process that requires writing a computer program
that will do a particular thing like testing in the case of test automation.
- Test automation takes a lot of time
but once if done can save a whole lot of time afterwards.
In this
article we are going to discuss the effect the optimization inflicts up
on the test automation process plus we will also chalk up the advantages as
well as disadvantages of optimizing the test automation process.
- Throughput
represents a very critical issue in almost all the testing processes.
- It is quite important to take
care of the throughput factor especially at the maintenance level.
- There are
some general rules and approaches that have been defined to be used during the
analyzation of the total requirements of the software testing system and these
rules and approaches have worked wonders in reducing the test time.
- Apart from
these rules and approaches there are other things like new programming
environments, new interface standards (like Ethernet) that helps in making a
significant improvement in the testing system.
Till now a variety of approaches
have been validated that can be used for the optimization of the test
automation process in order to increase the throughput.
For optimization we can
say that using it one can make significant gains only with a modest investment
of time and effort. The software quality can be optimized by adopting the best
of the software testing methodologies available, tools, processes and of course
people.
For further optimizing your test automation process you must take a
look at the below mentioned aspects:
- Code, documents and inspections.
- Unit testing
- Prototyping
- Allocation of the time and other resources.
- Designing and coding according to the testing.
- Automation of the regression testing.
- Designing of the tests for the verification of the user
expectations and specifications.
- Document analyzation
- Performing
positive root cause analysis.
- Some of
the software systems and applications are quite small and simple and so the
time taken to process the requests is quite less and negligible.
- However, when
it comes to the larger software systems and applications, the optimization of
the test automation process can save a lot of time for even the most basic test
case.
- For testing any big and complex software system or application, the
optimization becomes crucial.
- The
goal of every software tesing methodlogy is to ensure that the software
applications works just like what the customer has figured in his/ her
perspective.
- One of the myth about the optimization is that it is quite expensive
and hence it should be used when extremely necessary.
- There are people who
believe that 100 percent optimization of the test automation process is an
ultimate objective.
- However there is no particular formula, the relative
merits of the optimization of the test automation process depends up on many
factors.
- When you optimize the test automation process, the efficiency of the
whole automation process is increased gradually.
Everyday we witness a dramatic
increase in the complexity of the computing environments which puts quite a
great pressure on the automated testing thus calling for optimization.
