It’s quickly becoming more important for SME businesses to use quality assurance automation for their testing process. QA automation becomes more vital while working on the development of their e-commerce operations and online services. Failing this procedure, and SMEs are placed in a situation where they can’t deal with the expenses due to service delays and performance issues.
Scroll on down to find out what your team needs for your QA operations are successful.
Prerequisites
Two things have to be in place team-wide before the test automation system starts to work for you. Your team has to be writing automated tests, and your team should be using source control. Without these two main concepts, most of what follows will be inefficient.
Reporting
The quality of your reporting results is the most important aspect of a quality assurance automation system. The data that’s gathered every day can become substantial. It’s important to take some time in making the most accurate information more acceptable.
If the unit test fails, and you aren’t able to notice, what is the value to you? None, of course. That is the problem your reporting system must prevent from happening.
Besides the creation of good reports that make it easier to get relevant information, the reporting can be either active or passive. When the developer commits to the main branch, once they complete all the tests, they can obtain an email having a convenient link to your report.
Installation and Build
Having a good automation system works best when the installation and build can be completely automated. When someone says “I build and automation,” that’s vague; because what this means is that it’s installed on the end users computer.
Here an example of how this process can work:
- The source code is checked through its repository
- A script executes that creates the product installer, which acts as a standalone program itself.
- The installer is moved to the test machine.
- The environment of a test machine is then reset. This means that any form of a product is installed on the previous runs is uninstalled. One final cleanup step handles the loose ends including if an uninstaller is unable to run and is broken.
- The new installer is then executed and installed.
- Tests are run in a newer environment.
Notice that in this process no human input is required. Any manual steps will act as a bottleneck limiting how well your quality assurance automation can help you. It helps to minimize if you can.
Extensible
A good quality assurance automation software is extensible. As your system grows and evolves, you’ll want to be enabling new procedures and tests. Some will be specific to your project, and some will be unique.
Having an organized yet flexible QA framework will help make accommodating those new needs and making them practical.
Conclusion
When developing a quality assurance automation system, they need to follow the process stated above. By doing so, they’ll bring value to your businesses by making your testing operations easier and faster. Give your team time to make a good system, and you’ll be surprised at what results it will bring.
