What is real life example of automation testing?

Software testing plays a crucial role in a software project as it ensures that a fully functional and bug-free software product or application is released into the market. With the advent of automation testing, software testing activities have scaled up by providing accuracy, speed of execution and higher efficiency. This in turn has helped a lot of organizations to carry out their software development projects with ease. In this article, you will get to know about automation testing through a few examples.  

What is automation testing? 

It is a specific software testing process wherein test activities are carried out using the assistance of software, scripts, and tools by repeating pre-defined actions. Automation testing focuses on replacing time-consuming, error-prone, and repetitive manual activities or tasks with automated scripts so that the software performance can be enhanced. 

As mundane testing tasks are taken care of by the automation testing platform, testers can focus on other important testing activities such as analysing test results, performing exploratory tests etc. Hence, better test coverage is provided by the test automation platform in a shorter period. There are specific automation testing frameworks that can be applied to achieve various aspects of software development and testing activities.   

Following are a few real-time examples of automation testing: 

Example 1:  

In a certain software-based project, the QA (Quality Assurance) team could analyse that certain functionalities were not working as expected. There were other developers who were working on the code, but, eventually, when the platform of automation testing was implemented by the team, it took just a few seconds to verify the QA claims. At a later stage, the team identified that there was an issue with a staging deployment and not the code itself. 

Example 2: 

In a certain software-based project, the project owner took a decision to switch from PostgreSQL to SQL SERVER for policy and privacy reasons. Due to the tactical implementation of automated unit and integration tests, the entire transition process was carried out smoothly. Any code that was going to break due to ORM peculiarities with the new database was quickly identified. This was when the software project development was in its initial stages.   

Example 3: 

A web page is being automated by using Lambda Test and Selenium framework. Selenium is an open-source automation testing tool that is adept in performing cross-platform and cross-browser testing of web applications. Automated tests of web applications and websites can be performed in different platforms and different browsers using most of the programming languages.  

A cloud selenium Grid is offered by Lamda Test through which parallel tests can be run on various operating systems and online browser farms of huge browsers. The remote Selenium WebDriver should be instantiated instead of the local Selenium WebDriver. 

Various browsers need not be downloaded and configured as they are readily available on the online selenium grid. 

Following are a few key areas where the platform of automation testing can be applied: 

1. Data-driven tests: Repeated testing is carried out with different data sets and hence the platform of test automation can prove to be beneficial.  

2. Performance tests: The software performance and load can be tested by an automation testing platform under different conditions and that too in a less amount of time when compared to manual testing.  

3. Smoke tests: Smoke testing is also a good platform that can be used for carrying out automation testing activities. The platform of smoke testing can be applied in different environments such as QA environment, development environment and production environments.  

Conclusion: If you are looking forward to implementing automation testing for your specific project, then do get connected with a devoted software testing services company that will provide you with a tactical testing strategy that is in line with your project specific requirements.