One of the most common problems many software organizations are struggling with is the firm decision on Test Automation. The need for Test Automation is felt primarily to compliment manual testing in order to reduce time and resources. There are enormous test automation tools available in the market today; and to complicate the matrix the claims of many COTS automation tools look too promising with little mention of the real world environmental constraints. In this situation, it becomes very difficult to identify the exact problem areas which can be resolved by Automation and what tools can satisfy those needs.
Real world evaluation of the automation tools in purview of business problem and environmental constraints becomes very challenging.
Recent evolution of several Open-Source automated testing tools has complicated the problem even further. Most open-source tools suffer from the problem of steep learning curve due to lack of reliable documentation and training material.
Nonetheless, some organizations end up doing Proof of Concept study using the shortlisted tools with the partially skilled resources, the cost and effort of which at times becomes difficult to justify to the senior management. Contrarily many organizations do not even get to the starting point of automation tool evaluation for want of Time, Cost, Resources and Environmental complexities. Another problem related to Getting started is the already crunched schedule & resource allocation in ongoing projects which does not permit to pull out resources for this task of potentially less business value visibility.
How to drive automation tool adoption in a methodically phased manner - "distributing the adoption evenly and across the projects" is somewhat tricky. This also involves factoring the learning curve and training time into the adoption plan. Getting 3rd party training or exploiting the in-house expertise to keep the cost & schedule least impacted gets very challenging. Another subsequent issue is ‘Finding the correct aptitude of the resources chosen for creating Test Scripts’. The norm to put the Manual Testing & QA resources into the Test Automation effort is grossly wrong! Test Automation requires aptitude similar to programming while the manual testers require a different bent of mind. Creating a scalable and optimized Automation Framework requires sound understanding of the Application architecture and the operating environment.
Naanya has the expertise on chalking out the Test Automation Adoption strategy and providing the consultancy for the automation tool evaluation, selection, adoption and full throttle implementation with sound support for Training needs. Contact Us…
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