Every company owner needs a product that is error free. A product having bugs and errors could not satisfy a single user. Quality of product is the key factor of success of business whether it is small scale or large scale. Automation is a part of our daily life. Not only daily simple repetitive tasks but also highly skilled tasks are slowly getting automated. Automation saves millions of dollars and time in development and deployment of software product because of the benefit of build once and use multiple times. Automation is software development helps the development team to minimize errors and thus increases the productivity. IT automation is the use of instructions to create a repetitive process which replaces IT professional’s manual work. There are some automated tools available for development and testing.
How automation affects processes?
IT automation is depends on software tools to define and execute a series of actions that can be called by manually or by an external trigger. IT automation replaces the series of actions and responses between administrator and IT environment. Complex IT automation can be carried out by combining multiple scripts into a series. These automation processes are more helpful when they replace the administrators frequent task. This saves the time of administrator which is utilized for decision making.
There are some automated tools/frameworks available for development and testing and deployment.
1. Prebuilt Software-
It is difficult to estimate the cost of development of a new project. But it can be easily calculated by using a prebuilt framework such as CMS, pre-built shopping carts. Sometimes there is a risk of increase in cost or delay in deployment due to poor design compatibilities or errors in code. These Pre-built software is built to remove these errors and problems. It provides ready made features that minimizes the cost of development as these features don’t need to be coded again.
2. Validation and Testing Automation-
The testing can be done repetitively so that the bit of software is bug-free. The testing can be done in parallel with development to reduce the further bugs. No manager would like to deliver untested product.Untested product costs more than tested because it requires more support. Automation of testing helps to not only validate the workflow but also to detect the errors. Automation testing means the automation of mechanism of repetitive and necessary tasks in a testing process that will be difficult to be done manually.
Advantages of automation testing-
- Easy and early detection of errors.
- GUI testing can be achieved at multiple browsers and platforms thus reduces the bugs in less time.
- Continuous testing and API driven testing detects bugs in multiple releases.
- Bug free product at each release.
- Increase productivity
- Saves money
- Greater consistency
3. CI/CD for release control-
The concept of continuous integration is to find bugs and issues quickly and provides each developer feedback on their work and rapid fixing of bugs. Build creation is a tool to validate application to make it free from bugs or errors and free from a breakage. This is carried out for each run of build creation.Whenever build fails, the failure reasons are identified and report is sent for bug fixing.
When to automate an application?
- Large and sensitive projects.
- Access the application for load and performance with many virtual users
- Requirements do not change frequently
- Obtainability of time
- Projects that need to test the same areas often
Automated testing Tools-
1. Selenium-
Selenium is popular among all the automated testing tools. It is designed to support functional aspects of web based applications and wide range of platforms and browsers also.
Features of Selenium-
- It supports many programming languages like Java, Python, C#, Perl, PHP, and JavaScript and even more.
- Selenium also supports parallel test execution.
- It requires less resources as compared to other tools.
- Test cases prepared using selenium can be executed on any OS.
2. Ranorex-
Ranorex is all in one tool for cross- platform test automation. It is easy to use for beginners with codefree click-and-go interface. This is powerful tool with full IDE. It has a large user community.
Features of Ranorex-
- It automates challenging interfaces like SAP, ERP, Delphi and legacy applications.
- Run tests in parallel or distribute on a Selenium Grid
- Cross-browser testing
- Reduced maintenance
3. Waitr-
It is open- source cross- platform web application testing tool. It is more reliable and also flexible tool of ruby libraries for web browser automation. This testing tool interacts with browser likewise that of human, for eg., click the links, fill the forms and validate text.
Features of Waitr-
- It is free.
- Waitr is lightweight and powerful tool.
- It has an active and also growing community for support.
- It supports multiple browsers on multiple platforms.
Benefits of automation-
1. Speed-
IT operations includes a number of different tasks. Automation helps to perform these tasks rapidly than manual. Automation helps administrators from time spent on routine tasks, so that they can invest their time on more important tasks such as decision making.
2. Accuracy-
Errors lead admins to invest extra time to troubleshoot and repeat the work process to get it right. IT automation allows an IT professional to build accurate sequence of operations that can be run N number of times in an effective manner.
3. Flexibility-
There will be change in processes as technologies changes. Automated processes remain static until it manually changes. Organizations should have a workflow to update and revalidate automation processes. This helps to track the changes in tasks.
If you are new to software industry know the types of testing at our blog- Alpha, Beta and Gamma Testing- What is the difference?
Automation is a key to success-
Using automation for development, testing and deploying, you will be at a mechanism in which you always know the state of software. It is important to think and note that whether changing in a code causes more errors or not. It can be easily done by automated process and is beneficial to the production. You can safely develop new functionalities without worry about breakage of any functionality. This directly means that you are eliminating the risk of breakage of anything, and if you find any issue, you can fix it.
Need to develop a software for your business? Then you are at the right place. Solace expert’s will help you to develop a software that meets your requirement by using automated tools. So you can get your software within less time and money with high accuracy. Contact us for software development which gives exponential hike to your business that it deserves.
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