QA Automation Tools

What Is QA Automation?

Quality assurance (QA) is often done manually; however, there is software designed to take the load off of human participants and reduce manual testing. QA automation is done through software designed to explore, test, and report on its subject. Test automation will often apply artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to better service tasks for test optimization, intelligent test generation, execution, and reporting.

QA Automation Testing

QA automation testing is just what it sounds like…quality assurance for apps and software through mobile testing and web testing, but automated. What does this mean? There are QA automation tools available that can take over repetitive tasks to free up your team’s time to do more complex or more creative problem-solving. Make no mistake, there is no way to achieve 100% automated testing (we wish!) but automation tools can help take the mundane stuff off your plate during day-to-day operations.

The Automation Testing Life Cycle (ATLC) will generally guide you through the process of automated testing, starting with decision making and selecting appropriate tools and ending with a review and assessment of the whole process. As mentioned, the first step is always selecting the right tools. That’s where this article comes in.

In this post, I’ll explain what test automation can do for you and how it can help your efforts with quality assurance for software development. I’ll share with you a few of the best automation testing tools on the market and briefly highlight each item.

What Are The Benefits Of Automated Testing?

Automated testing can help speed up the process of delivering quality software faster, known as “Quality at Speed” (QAS) or sometimes “Quality at Scale“. Automated testing is an important component of DevOps toolchains and agile methodologies, which helps deliver on QaS. Mobile automation testing tools can :

increase feedback speeds
accelerate results
lower business expenses (hourly wages)
increase test efficiency and scope
detect defects earlier on in the development process
generate more thorough test results

Automated testing is also often an important part of software development that uses a continuous integration methodology.

QA Automation Tools