The faster a business startup enters the market, the higher the chances of it succeeding! But, in the rush of joining the market as soon as possible, startups must not trivialize the importance of testing as they have very little space for mistakes in the beginning. Startups are about speed, but delivering a buggy app or website can kill the first impression and quickly turn off users, making testing an essential part of the development process. However, most startups run tight on time and money and the sole reliance on manual testers to do all the heavy lifting consumes a lot of time and quickly shrinks their budget. But thanks to automation testing which actually makes it possible for startups to deliver a high quality product fast while also keeping the testing cost low. Let’s see when QA automation is necessary for business startups.
Automation Testing is Perfect for a Startup When:
- There are multiple updates and releases.
- Repetitive tests sap money and time.
- Testing is required at a large scale with the utmost efficiency.
- There is a heavy intensity of regression testing.
- Manual errors can lead to revenue loss as software functionality includes cost figures and mathematical calculations.
- Some manual tests take a lot of effort and time.
- Involves data-driven and keyword-driven testing
- There is a greater increase in the execution tempo.
- Manual load testing, smoke testing, and mobile app performance testing are time-consuming and expensive
- Turn around time is lesser, even for high-risk software testing.
How Automation Testing benefits Startups
24/7 Test Execution
Automation helps startups expedite the testing cycle as tests can be performed 24/7 from anywhere, anytime in the world. For example, regression testing has to be done from time to time for software that has multiple releases, upgrades or updates. If 80 hours of manual effort is required for regression testing, it will take 10 days for a single tester to do so. On the other hand, automation will get the task done in just 80/24 days, which means 3.3 days. Therefore, automation will save a lot of time and manual effort that goes in testing. Also, if clients ask to perform testing at odd hours (Let’s say 3 am in the morning), manual testers will find it troublesome after a hectic day at work. The beauty of test automation is that it allows you to schedule your test case execution to run at any hour of the day, so working hours are never a problem with test automation.
Improved Efficiency and Accuracy in Repetitive Tasks
Regression testing has long been a pain point of testers as they have to repeat a set of similar test cases again and again to ensure that an update or change has not adversely affected the existing functionalities. This not just consumes a lot of time and money but also reduces the efficiency of testers. Also, as startups have time constraints, they may not be able to thoroughly perform regression testing every time the software gets updated. Manual testing is also subject to human errors and it’s difficult to establish if tests are performed the same way every time. All these issues make automation ideal for regression testing. Testers have to make a one-time effort in building automated test cases to execute test suites repeatedly each time a change is made to the code. Therefore, automation keeps QA teams from spending a significant amount of time in doing tedious tasks and from having to fix human error-based issues. Less numbers of tests to be performed manually also increases the test coverage, which is another benefit of test automation. Read More- Why is Automation Testing Necessary for Your Business Startup?
