What is Automation Testing?

Automation testing is creating a software framework which will automatically test the targeted software under test. Simple abbreviation could be “Creating a software framework to test another targeted software”.

There are many tools available in market to achieve this.

Let’s take an example of most used open source testing frameworks for Automation Testing:

1. Appium is for mobile app testing. Appium is an open source tool which can be used to verify functionality of both Android and iOS apps.

2. Selenium Webdriver is for web app testing. Selenium webdriver is also an open source tool to verify functionality of web based applications.

3. Apache Jmeter is for automated performance testing. Jmeter is widely used open source tool to generate virtual users performing action using http protocol.

4. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is for security testing. OWASP provides various open source tools to automate your security testing.

Above two examples are related to Functional Testing and last two are related to Non Functional Testing.

How Functional Testing can be Automated:

• Testers use tools which perform user action not by doing it manually but generating same scenarios by using specific flow of methods.
• Tools provide verification methods like Assertions to check expected behaviour.
• Many organizations started automating whole testing process by binding testing tools with CI tools like Jenkins.

What are the Key Benefits of Automation Testing:

• Testing is a software that is manually using humans as resource and is not at all considered as a smart idea. Humans are error prone and can miss scenarios while testing execution.
• Automation removes this problem because technology is reliable resource and have measurable and fixable error rate.
• Test Execution speed is faster and parallel testing of same case on different environment is possible. For Example: Selenium Grid.

9series offers automation and mobile app testing services. We have dedicated QA team specialized in selenium web driver, cucumber to fulfill web based automation functional testing as quality matters. For mobile automation testing, we provide automation services using Appium. Our team is experienced and expert with Gatling and Jmeter to fulfill non functional load testing requirements and this way our performance matters.

Get in touch with 9series team today to make your software quality better using best automation testing services in NYC.