{"id":13292,"date":"2018-10-15T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigniti.com\/blog\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:30:30","slug":"critical-to-perform-automated-testing-for-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/critical-to-perform-automated-testing-for-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it critical to perform Automated Testing for the websites?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The consumer scenario is changing and even the risks are piling up due to the challenges laid by Digital Transformation. Additionally, the risks around cyberattacks are going up, resulting in anxiety around performance, functionality, and accessibility of websites during business critical scenarios. Hence, this has led to a lot of focus on testing websites across various parameters, and beyond just security. The focus has also been on continuous testing, which is impossible without leveraging automation frameworks and automated testing formats.<\/p>\n
Testing of websites has multiple reasons and trigger points, which are impossible to meet if automation is not adopted. Even with scrupulous software development by experienced groups, the software tends to get delivered with defects. Bugs and glitches tend to creep into the system and create issues while the application is running LIVE on desktops and portable dimensions. Test Automation enables you to boost the effectiveness, efficiency, and maximize the test coverage for the application.<\/p>\n
Automated Testing tools enable you to playback pre-recorded and predefined actions and eventually compare the results with the expected behaviour. It also helps to report back the actions and track the testing process. These features are impossible to achieve without implementing automation and the tools. That\u2019s the reason automated software testing is critical for the software development cycle and application development. It not only accelerates the software testing process, but also makes it more efficient, traceable, and result-oriented.<\/p>\n
It is not only critical for big software development organizations, but also for smaller set-ups. However, in case you are leveraging licensed tools, the process gets very expensive. That\u2019s the reason experts recommend that test automation should be planned strategically, making it more objective-oriented.<\/p>\n
A piece in DevOps Online<\/a> states, \u2018Intelligent test automation heralds the third wave in the test automation or DevOps journey, with its pre-emptive, prescriptive and predictive approach to quality. Simply put, intelligent testing uses AI and ML to address the pain points that organisations face, by introducing data-driven insights, predictions and recommendations.\u2019<\/p>\n While implementing automation for websites, it is important to set the scope right. Executing automation for specific tasks can be impactful and logical, rather than just applying across the site. This will also help teams to keep a control over the testing and automation process, and make it more enhancing for the overall software testing cycle. Most importantly, it makes testing more traceable and effective for teams even in the longer run.<\/p>\n It is critical to understand whether your web application needs automation across various features or only for a select sections. Making these decisions is absolutely essential to enable a process that gives results and doesn\u2019t just get executed blindly through the testing cycle. It can be chaotic if automation is executed without a particular plan. Setting tangible objectives is absolutely essential and makes total sense to achieve what is needed.<\/p>\n