The shift towards Agile and Continuous Delivery requires higher levels of test automation, with the main challenge being the creation and maintenance of test environments.
A big discrepancy between test and production environments can be another factor that causes problem to test automation cycles. In most cases, the end-users probably use a different resolution, browser version, or an operating system version than the one you’ve run the tests against, resulting in environments being the weakest link in the process.
A big discrepancy between test and production environments can be another factor that causes problem to test automation cycles. In most cases, the end-users probably use a different resolution, browser version, or an operating system version than the one you’ve run the tests against, resulting in environments being the weakest link in the process.
Provision of production-like Environments
While the time and costs associated with building your own infrastructure may seem small in the beginning, they'll quickly start growing immensely as more devices, browsers, and resolutions will need to be added to provide coverage.
Labor Cost
Labor cost is defined basically by the time spent in maintaining and upgrading test environments and databases which has to do with the amount of effort DBA and testing teams put. New configurations can be time consuming and increase labor costs. However, having clean test environments makes teams focus on other important problems more effectively.
Device Cost
It includes the costs of keeping different devices and systems as well as new environments updated. As long as the team grows and new devices are added, the need to keep those based on the latest release, will increase the overall device cost. Once it’s done the right way, you will enjoy improved testing coverage.
Software License Cost
Software licenses are also a necessity when it comes to managing environments. Along with desktop hardware, virtual machines and other real devices, they increase the overall maintenance costs.
Parallel Execution
By running UI tests in parallel, your testing suit saves lot of time in completing a single run. However you need to follow some more steps –set up and extra configuration- in order to ensure that your in-house test infrastructure or cloud virtualization service can handle parallel execution. If you haven’t dynamically scale devices as per your needs, running tests in parallel can get really time-consuming.
Debugging & Reporting
An in-depth debugging mechanism in-house that ensures tests are fully debugged helps you invest the time -that would be spend trying to improve common visibility across team members- on sectors of significant importance.
Quality Assurance process is needed in order to ensure the success of your project and the overall right function of testing according to specifications and requirements.
Validata Quality Suite helps you avoid without any kind of defects or problems.
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