Self-Healing – Automate the Automation
Introduction to The Test Automation Landscape…and Beyond It’s no secret that Software Testing was always on the backseat during the traditional ways of development. Fast forward to 2020, and testing is right next to the development phase and even goes hand-in-hand. From assuming it as ‘low priority’, it’s now become the most important aspect of software development. From manual testing to automated testing to self-healing automated testing – It’s a journey from proscriptive to prescriptive.
Why Test Automation became so important In an attempt to exempt testers from the time-consuming repetitive tasks, Automated testing came into existence and helped organizations achieve multiple business values like faster time to market, improved ROI and reduced testing cost and effort. The process involved an automated tool to execute a test case suite and generate detailed test reports.
However, as automation testing began to evolve, its popularity and ubiquity revealed some deficits. While the promise of automated testing was immense as it provided a greater testing efficiency, it had its associated risks from frequent changes made to the test scripts – ranging from failure of automated tests to test packages not being up-to-date. Real-time issue resolution was the need of the hour. And what better than the power combo of AI and ML to resolve this problem.
How the new age technologies – Agile, DevOps, AI and ML led to offset of Test Automation and onset of self-healing
With great power, comes great responsibility. As per World Quality Report, demands for quality-at-speed and shift-left have placed the onus of ensuring end-user satisfaction on quality assurance teams.
Imagine you are playing and you scrape your hand. Your body’s self healing mechanism kicks in and tries to heal the wound. Now, apply the same principle to software testing.
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