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deepshikha · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 22

Explain me Cost-Effective Automated Testing...?

sachdeva · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

Automated testing is expensive. It does not replace the need for manual testing. Automated testing is an addition to your testing process, it can take between 3 to 10 times as long (or longer) to develop, verify, and document an automated test case than to create and execute a manual test case. This is especially true if you elect to use the "record/playback" feature (contained in most test tools) as your primary automated testing methodology. Record/Playback is the least cost-effective method of automating test cases.

Automated testing can be made to be cost-effective depends upon the

>>Test tool suites for the requirement
>>Tests that needs to be run for every build of the application
>>Tests that use multiple data values for the same actions
>>Tests that require detailed information from application internals

Avoid using "Record/Playback" as a method of automating testing. This method is fraught with problems, and is the most costly (time consuming) of all methods over the long term. The record/playback feature of the test tool is useful for determining how the tool is trying to process or interact with the application under test, and can give you some ideas about how to develop your test scripts, but beyond that, its usefulness ends quickly. The scripts resulting from this method contain hard-coded values, which must change if anything at all changes in the application.

Adopt a data-driven automated testing methodology. This allows you to develop automated test scripts that are more "generic", requiring only that the input and expected results be updated. There are 2 data-driven methodologies that are useful. I will discuss both of these in detail in this paper.

abhishekh_07 · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 13

Explain me Automated Software Testing

gatzephyr · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 16 Location: EmeryVille , CA

In my opinion automated Testing is used to test the basic functionality of the payroll system and perform regression testing on areas of the systems that previously had critical/major defects. The tool will also assist us by executing user scenarios thereby emulating several users. Nowadays there are many tools available, however, I would like to suggest you to try Zephyr a comprehensive Test Management Tool with extensive testing features.