QA Automation: keys to keep in mind and advantages for your project.

Pablo Slaj, QA Automation Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/pabloslaj/
Sofía Acher, IT Copywriter https://www.linkedin.com/in/sofia-acher/

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QA automation is a quality process in which a collaborator or a work team generates and executes different test cases through a tool, to validate the expected functioning of an application in an automatic way. The developed tool or script produces a report with the findings. If there is an error or there is something unexpected, this is reported to then make a deeper analysis. The main difference with manual testing is who is performing the application’s validations, in QA automation this is done by the tool or the developed automatic script and in manual testing it is done by a human being.

QA automation offers many advantages for clients. “Doing Automation Testing and applying it correctly means being able to reduce between 60% and 70% of manual testing as well as executing tests more frequently with more data combinatorics. In a few words, it allows us to reduce the necessary time to go to production”, explains Matías Panusópulos, QA Automation Engineer at Onetree. This is the most important advantage, a lot of time is saved, which translates into saving money. As well as this, execution speed is much faster than in manual testing, bugs are detected earlier. Another advantage, which is crucial, is that there is a lot of reliability at the moment of validation.

There are different types of testing that we can automate, generally the testing types are divided in two groups, Functional and Non Functional Tests. Some of them, including the ones we use the most and the ones we will explain in this article. Functional Testing includes: Black Box testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing.

Having a QA automation team is really important nowadays. “It is essential to detect the project ‘s needs and select the adequate tools for them so that they can escalate as the project grows” says Matías Panusópulos, QA Automation Engineer in our team. Applications grow rapidly and exponentially, so the workload for the manual testing team may be too much.

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