subject: The Beginning Of New Era: Test Manager [print this page] Technology is evolving by the dayTechnology is evolving by the day. Software quality testing forms an integral part of the product development life cycle. That said, testing software manually is sometimes a tiring process, especially when the same functionality it tested over and over again. In order to overcome these problems, we need to leverage technology to make the testing process smarter and simpler.
When we step into the Software quality testing world, there are a number of time consuming tasks: for example:
Creating and executing manual test cases
Writing bug reports manually
At the end of the day, manually consolidating a report showing the traceability between various work items
Different environments to run tests on
Regression testing that involves a very hectic process wherein a tester has to repeatedly execute test cases manually, which may sometimes result in missing some obviously bugs due to the monotony involved.
To overcome such challenges, what we need is:
An automation engineer
Tool(s) used by automation engineer, which can either be open sourced or licensed
A testers job is to test the application, report as many bugs as possible and maintain the traceability between various work items, but it's a very tedious and cumbersome process when carried out manually. It may result in mistakes and even data loss. We need to go through all test cases and use cases to set up the traceability between them. This is where automated methods need to be leveraged.
At QA InfoTech, we have software quality testing experts providing one stop solution to all these problems by defining a role called Test Manager in our projects. Test Manager is a powerful mentor who helps testers manage test cases, automate tests, deploy different lab environments and report bugs. It is easy to create, run and manage test cases using Test Manager. Once a test case is created, we need to run it manually for the first time and then run it again automatically using different parameters. If the test case runs successfully, we can mark it as 'Pass'; else, it is marked as 'Fail'. When a test is marked as 'Fail', we can log a bug through Test Manager. The process of bug reporting can also be automated as soon as the bug is found. We don't need to write all the steps to reproduce a specific bug. Test Manager automatically captures steps and other information into the bug report. We can automate the test cases using coded UI feature of Visual Studio that can be integrated with Test Manager.
Test Managers save your precious time and money and help to invest in better ways. We should keep ourselves updated with the newer technologies being launched in the market as there are more such tools available that could help sail us through rough waters.
