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kathuria · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 9

What is "Automated Testing"?

stone · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

The Automated Testing means automating the manual testing process currently in use.Detailed test cases, including predictable "expected results", which have been developed from Business Functional Specifications and Design documentation .A standalone Test Environment, including a Test Database that is restorable to a known constant, such that the test cases are able to be repeated each time there are modifications made to the application. If your current testing process does not include the above points, you are never going to be able to make any effective use of an automated test tool.

The real use and purpose of automated test tools is to automate regression testing. This means that you must have or must develop a database of detailed test cases that are repeatable, and this suite of tests is run every time there is a change to the application to ensure that the change does not produce accidental cost.

An "automated test script" is a program. Automated script development, to be effective, must be subject to the same rules and standards that are applied to software development. Making effective use of any automated test tool requires at least one trained, technical person in that tool.

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

Automated Testing means software testing which is assisted with software technology that does not require operator (tester) for input, analysis, or evaluation. Testing tools can help automate tasks such as product installation, test data creation, GUI interaction, problem detection (consider parsing or polling agents equipped with oracles), defect logging, etc., without necessarily automating tests in an end-to-end fashion.

Nowadays there are many tools available however, I would suggest that you try Zephyr, a comprehensive Test Management System with extensive testing features.