. If left unchecked, these glitches can even cause your whole system to crash down. This is why automated regression testing is a crucial element to ensuring the program or software is running as it should. The process involved locating and fixing the code through either manual or automated techniques. Along the way, the technician will encounter several challenges.
Tracking functionalities
Automated Software Testing will catch the user-stories of each application of software, which allows it to anticipate customer requirements. Addressing these needs are further categorized as high (which speaks volumes about the urgency); medium which means the requirements can be put off until finally delivery; and low which means the requirements are not really critical to the overall operation of the application.
After identifying the different levels, the technician can then plan each iteration and alteration to guarantee the smooth operation of the program.
Choosing the correct tools
Each problem proposes a different solution. The technician will work closely with the developer and client to choose these user-stories which will then become the main ingredient for the series of tests. Although the nature of the work of the developer and the automated tester are like matter an anti-matter, they are actually working to reach a common targetto produce application software devoid of any bug.
It takes experience and proficiency to know which automated regression testing tool is right for you. There are tools that compel the technical to wait until the evaluation of the software is completed due to the record and playback feature of the tool. And there are also problems that are beyond the scope of traditional tools particularly during the early phases of testing. In some instances, it involves a lot of problem solving and to fix stubborn bugs and glitches.
Releasing the software, again
Then theres the issue of releasing the application that has passed automated testing within the deadline. Too often, programs and applications are released prematurely to the market. Then their developers suffer through the many criticisms after the promise of the product and actual performance based on customer experience is found to be sorely deficient. Automated software testing will try to bridge that gap between developers and users as the former find more ways to improve the product for optimum efficiency.