Tester’s Month Story – Test Automation Myth Busters

Brainstorming meetings will help in identifying what we can automate. Most of the test management tools nowadays have a field to mark whether a test case is an automation candidate or not.

As most of the organizations today are following the Scrum framework, it’s always better to do this kind of meeting at least once a month to understand what’s in the plan for the future.

 If you follow the KISS  principle & philosophy (keep it simple stupid), you know it’s better not to make it too complex. A test automation framework design is the core part of automation. The more it adapts simplicity, it will be better to maintain and incorporate existing test engineers to contribute to automation tasks.

📌 I personally recommend the TestProject platform for an easy, simple & codeless test automation to your team.

That’s a big NO. In fact, the more we are going towards the rapid and systematic modularized way of application development, the demand to test the product continuously is increasing. As the integration is happening in a faster way, It requires continuous testing as well in sync with continuous development.

Other jobs related to testing have also increased if we compare them to past years. Security testing, accessibility testing & performance testing have become a specialized domain, and it has a great learning curve as well as great job opportunities 💪

4️⃣ Codeless automation requires no coding knowledge

That’s not true. The name is codeless, but that doesn’t mean all the tests can be automated without any code/script change. Logically in the background, compatible code is generated, and customization is required at different levels of complexity in test automation.

so, it’s always better to learn at least one programming knowledge to support a codeless automation process. The most loved and preferable ones are Javascript, Java, Python, or C#.

5️⃣ Make big test cases to cover more features in one shot

Test cases should be atomic. Checking one or two things will be a better idea than checking multiple things in a test, as your test report should show what exact test case failed and which functionality needs a recheck.

6️⃣ Automation kills the job for others

Also a big NO. In fact, companies/projects can take more and more tasks from the roadmap if the automation is supporting faster solutions.

Organizations can concentrate more on different types of testing than just API and UI testing once it is automated. Automation, day by day, is creating new jobs and hence creating opportunities for software professionals.