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    Tescases to be automated

    How do you determine testcases that need to be Automated ?


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    Re: Tescases to be automated

    Simply put, what is meant by "Automated Testing" is automating the manual testing process currently in use. This requires that a formalized "manual testing process" currently exists in your company or organization. Minimally, such a process includes:

    Detailed test cases, including predictable "expected results", which have been developed from Business Functional Specifications and Design documentation
    A standalone Test Environment, including a Test Database that is restorable to a known constant, such that the test cases are able to be repeated each time there are modifications made to the application
    If your current testing process does not include the above points, you are never going to be able to make any effective use of an automated test tool.

    So if your "testing methodology" just involves turning the software release over to a "testing group" comprised of "users" or "subject matter experts" who bang on their keyboards in some ad hoc fashion or another, then you should not concern yourself with testing automation. There is no real point in trying to automate something that does not exist. You must first establish an effective testing process.

    The real use and purpose of automated test tools is to automate regression testing. This means that you must have or must develop a database of detailed test cases that are repeatable, and this suite of tests is run every time there is a change to the application to ensure that the change does not produce unintended consequences.

    An "automated test script" is a program. Automated script development, to be effective, must be subject to the same rules and standards that are applied to software development. Making effective use of any automated test tool requires at least one trained, technical person – in other words, a programmer.


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    Re: Tescases to be automated

    Testcases which you have to run very frequently are better to automate.

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    Re: Tescases to be automated

    basicaly we automated those test cases in which the functionality is repeated or you can say for avoiding the exhaustive testing.


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