Over the last two decades, there are many companies that have never been able to achieve the desired business results from their automation initiatives. Traditional test automation techniques are found to be ineffective in meeting the business demands of rapid application delivery and faster time-to-market.
There are several factors that have accounted for automation to fail and in this blog series we will list them one by one.
The first reason is that traditional script-based tests are cumbersome to maintain.
With traditional automation, testers have to invest considerable time into learning how to script each test scenario.
Script-based tests will need to be maintained and updated. Over time, as new features and new product improvements are introduced, the test cases and regression suites will grow as well, making it difficult to ensure that these are up-to-date and reusable. Every time there is a change or update in the application, your tests must be updated so that they could re-run successfully.
Teams often reach that point where it’s faster to create new tests rather than update the existing ones. When it takes more effort to update the tests than it would take to re-run them manually, test automation will be abandoned.
Test maintenance has been the death of many test automation initiatives, and your test automation initiative should not fall victim to high maintenance costs.
To make things worse, scripts become as vulnerable to defects as code is. This means that when we have defects in our test scripts, it causes false positives and can interrupt test execution.
The combination of false positives, script errors and bloated test suites create burdens for the QA teams that cannot be easily overcome.
The first reason is that traditional script-based tests are cumbersome to maintain.
With traditional automation, testers have to invest considerable time into learning how to script each test scenario.
Script-based tests will need to be maintained and updated. Over time, as new features and new product improvements are introduced, the test cases and regression suites will grow as well, making it difficult to ensure that these are up-to-date and reusable. Every time there is a change or update in the application, your tests must be updated so that they could re-run successfully.
Teams often reach that point where it’s faster to create new tests rather than update the existing ones. When it takes more effort to update the tests than it would take to re-run them manually, test automation will be abandoned.
Test maintenance has been the death of many test automation initiatives, and your test automation initiative should not fall victim to high maintenance costs.
To make things worse, scripts become as vulnerable to defects as code is. This means that when we have defects in our test scripts, it causes false positives and can interrupt test execution.
The combination of false positives, script errors and bloated test suites create burdens for the QA teams that cannot be easily overcome.
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