AUTOMATION TESTING CHALLENGES FOR MANUAL
TESTERS
As the popularity of Automation Testing is increasing by
the day, so are more software companies look forward to adapt it. Manual Test
engineers spend a lot of energy to find maximum number of defects before the
product releases, but the defects still appear. If automation testing is
rightly implemented, increased efficiency, effectiveness and coverage of
software testing can be achieved.
Companies that have been performing manual testing using a large
workforce of manual test engineers are showing a great interest in automation
testing as it provides many advantages majorly in terms of time, effort and
quality. However, many companies are not able to adopt it because of many
constraints like not able to identify a right automated software testing
tool, and not having huge budgets.
If testing is
not performed properly, it can lead to an inadequate product quality, and
increase in the overall testing costs. Automation has the ability to mitigate
slow, repetitive, and error-prone testing activities and allows testers to
focus on those areas where defects can be identified more. Many companies want
to use their long time manual testers to implement automation testing.
The reason is
that companies might have come to know that their testers have gained vast
knowledge about applications and their features or components. They might have
realized this knowledge is highly important for testing more quickly. Moreover,
less budget might be one of the reasons that the companies cannot pay high
compensation to automation testers. It also might be difficult for the
companies following manual testing practices for a long time to quickly adopt
and implement automation testing practices. More importantly, companies cannot
provide sufficient time for their manual testers to acquire required knowledge
because of tight delivery deadlines and the major challenge to perform
automation testing is to have a right tool, and to effectively use it along
with right resources.
Some of the
Challenges for Manual Testers to do Test Automation are they need to spend a
lot of in learning programming languages. Automation is like development, so
tools might require customization.
Some of the advantages
which automation testing provides are reduced time and effort, execution
of scripts at any time, being ideal for large and complicated projects, being
reliable, providing consistency, improving test coverage, improving application
quality, and accelerating time to market. With a large number of automated
software testing solutions available in the market, it is imperative for the
companies to identify a right tool which can be easily used by subject matter
experts, Business Analysts, and manual test engineers with minimal or no
technical training.
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