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Every new software, method, or tool comes with certain growing pains and takes some time to get used to, although it’s almost always worth the adoption effort, a major part of which is testing. Test automation dramatically improves your processes, saves you time and resources, and ultimately leads to higher-quality software. But you can’t just jump into it and expect the automation to produce the results you want.
To achieve success in product development, your teams must be aligned on clearly defined business criteria. If your teams are not marching to the same drumbeat, you significantly increase your risk exposure around quality issues and threaten your ability to hit deadlines. So how can companies ensure alignment? One popular option is incorporating business acceptance testing into existing workflows.
A test plan outlines the objectives, methods, organization, and success criteria for testing a specific feature of a web application or other software project. A good test plan contains all the information you need to write automated tests and will help direct your efforts so you don’t waste time creating unnecessary tests. Here is the test plan template we use with our clients.
Software testing was initially a manual activity, however, due to the importance of speedy delivery, the transition to automation testing is predictable. Unfortunately, this shift can become an overwhelming voyage, especially for startups without a dedicated QA team. Suppose you are a manual tester (or developer) seeking an automation solution to speed up your project.
At Speedscale, we are on the cutting edge of defining autonomous testing for the cloud era. However, we aren’t the only company trying to solve this problem and we enjoy learning from every perspective. That’s why Facebook’s recent blog article about autonomous testing caught my eye. They’ve built a sophisticated autonomous test system that introduces many of the same techniques we utilize.
Although terms like “quality testing” may seem modern, software testing has been around since the advent of computing roughly 70 years ago. Harvard University scientist Grace Murray coined the terms “bugging” and “debugging” in 1947 when a literal “bug” — in this case, a moth — got stuck in the computer circuitry and interrupted a connection.
