10/31/2018 12:12While Quality Assurance engineers have long advocated for automated testing, few business owners realize its true value. Today, I’m going to show how automated tests can benefit your business and share the insights gained in 8+ years of testing software.
Let’s dive right in.
#1 Decreased costs
#2 Increased test coverage
#3-4 Increased test accuracy and boosted morale
#5 Faster delivery
#6 Uncover hard to find bugs
#7 Easy reporting
While manual testing is a slow meticulous process of running tests manually, one step at a time; automated testing allows writing test scripts once and run them automatically every time developers make changes to the application’s code. A test automation tool collects the results and presents them in an easy to read format.
This allows your development team to continuously test software for defects and fix them faster.
Automated testing is crucial for Agile Development with its focus on fast delivery.
According to a 2016 study, the use of automated tests has increased by 85% in a two-year period.
At the same time, many companies have trouble implementing even basic test automation. As many as 41% of IT teams have confessed to lacking proper auto testing methods.
