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Test Automation by Abhijit Dixit, Head/VP/GM-Quality, HSBC Global Technology Center

Test Automation

By : Abhijit Dixit, Head/VP/GM-Quality, HSBC Global Technology Center
Industry : IT Services Functional Area : Quality Management
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Test Automation - everyone wants to use it but not many are ready to pay for it. Rarely does automation result in cost savings in the short term and as such most efforts for test automation are percieved as failures. As such it is really important to have a proper framework for assessing the feasibility of test automation for a particular project. A couple of points I like to consider in the automation fesaibility are

 1. Longetivity of the application : Test automation would only be benefitial in applications which are there for the long haul i.e have a shelf life of atleast 3 years plus.

2. Stability : There are some applications which do have a long term life but are subject to major interface changes. Such applications are not suitable for automation .

3. Test management software: It is very important to have the test cases and other test managemetn aritifacts managed well. If there is no test management tool being used it becomes rather to manage the automation effort.

Furthermore I have yet to see any industry benchmarks for what % of test cases should be automated etc.. So please share your experiences and comments and we can continue to build our knowledge on this very interesting topic.

Abhijeet Dixit

 Top Comment : Mallikarjuna Gupta Bhogavalli   | 07 17 2008 21:13:14 +0000
Abhijit, I agree with you that still automated testing is still to pick up. My experiences with automated testing is really gud. As it helps in finding out the regression if there are any. But we cannot take a full fledged decision based on automated testing. It still requires some amount of manual testing. Success of automated testing depends on the project you are undertaking.You have rightly said that all projects do not qualify for automated testing.
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  Commented by  karthik, QA&QC-Executive, GE    | 01 06 2009 17:06:27 +0000 
I feel whatever abhijit has said is correct but coming to the % of Test cases to be automated is entirely Dependant on the repetitiveness with consistency of a particular test...thats where automation is required in simple terms.... tools know nothing, framework blah-blah...but just execute what their owners ask them to do........

cheers!!
  Commented by  varsha mishra, Analytical Chemistry Manager, rfrac    | 10 30 2008 07:58:56 +0000 
good one
  Commented by  Darpan Sinha, Solution Architect, Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt Ltd    | 09 03 2008 02:09:14 +0000
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True I will say if you expect a lot of CR's to come your way automated testing can be boon as it will help you identify the impact of the change on other modules
  Commented by  Samir Nigam, Sr. Software Engineer , SRM TECHSOL Pvt. Ltd.    | 07 30 2008 06:25:55 +0000
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Nice. Thanks for this.
  Commented by  pushpalata, Software Developer Infosys Technologies    | 07 28 2008 04:20:26 +0000
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Need help on the coding for modal dialoge box test cases.
  Commented by  Mallikarjuna Gupta Bhogavalli, Sr. Product Manager, Oracle India Pvt Ltd    | 07 17 2008 21:13:14 +0000
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Abhijit,

I agree with you that still automated testing is still to pick up. My experiences with automated testing is really gud. As it helps in finding out the regression if there are any. But we cannot take a full fledged decision based on automated testing. It still requires some amount of manual testing. 
Success of automated testing depends on the project you are undertaking.You have rightly said that all projects do not qualify for automated testing.
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