QA testing and agile approach
What’s IT organizations biggest challenge? For most mid-market IT teams, it’s getting QA testing done on time using their current tools, which are often reactive and standalone. This challenge is only increasing with the advent of digital transformation which is significantly influencing the ways QA and software testing are performed. Fortunately this is easy to achieve with agile testing.
The benefits of the agile testing approach are as follows:
- It saves time and money
- It is flexible and highly adaptable to changes
- It provides a way for receiving regular feedback from the end user
- Any changes or enhancements can be easily implemented without much constraints
ROI from QA automation
- Testing Improves Accuracy: By doing away with monotonous manual testing, testers are freed from routine manual tests. That way they get more time to focus on new automated software tests and handle more complex tasks.
- Automation does more than Manual Testing: Imagine web application testing with scores of users manually, it is not only resource intensive but also fraught with errors. But automation testing on the other hand can effortlessly handle thousands of virtual users with great accuracy.
- Automation testing helps developers and testers: It runs tests automatically whenever source code changes are checked in and notifies the team if they don’t. This greatly saves time of developers.
A few of the reasons why your legacy testing processes might need a facelift include:
Enterprises will realize that QA can be an intensively manual effort if they choose manual approach for specific test use-cases. In many organizations as we all know, testing is still an intensive manual task that is performed by QA team. They are spending all their time on routine, repetitive maintenance just to keep systems running.
Software testing has evolved from being a process that involved reporting bugs to developers and assessing over product usability to a way of enhancing application performance. Conventional, legacy processes are simply unable to provide the agility that today’s businesses and testing use cases demand. But replacing an established legacy testing processes is not as simple as 1-2-3; the move to QA automation requires an incremental, well-governed approach to rapidly deliver business results while ensuring minimal disruption to existing application delivery underway.
The main challenge of moving to the QA Automation is figuring out how to balancing quality, speed & cost and improve productivity.
Prime QA automation services helps successfully leverage test automation to produce higher quality software —your way, at your pace.
Source: Driving business results and maximizing ROI through QA Automation Part 2
