Software test automation is the future of testing. Whether you are agile or waterfall, automation plays key role in your overall test strategy. Unfortunately it is a sad reality that there are more managers and leads who hate automation than those who like it or neutral - combined. Whether they have bad experience with automation, heard negative things from others or there are some other reasons.
Do you believe that as a front-line manager you should knowthe work you are directly managing? Are you equipped with the right knowledgeyou need to effectively utilize automation for the success of yourorganization? If yes, terrific, keep it up. If no, don’t worry, you are at
Why do this course?
When to consider automation?
Both in Agile and Waterfall, regression testing has been one area that is often compromised when you are pressed against time, budget and resources and more often than not such a compromise end up becoming a costly mistake after go live. Regression testing is something you should have done optimally well but didn’t due to resource, time and budget constraints. Automation comes in handy
With more and more teams moving towards agile, it is only natural that you make changes to your applications more frequently than you do in waterfall. This brings new challenges in terms of regression testing the features added in previous sprints. You must consider automating not only regression tests but also those tests in current release/sprint that are data intensive, highly repetitive and tedious.