The Advantage of Conducting Automated Software Testing

Developing computer software is not easy at all. Apart from developing the concept behind the software, computer software engineers would also have to come up with the ways and means for this concept to be fully applied by the software itself that they are developing. More importantly, engineers also have to make sure that the software they develop is indeed free of bugs and glitches before they release these to the buying public. This is where automated software testing enters the picture.

When administering software tests, there would inevitably come a need to perform certain tests over and over again, just to make sure all bases are covered. Pretty easy, right? After all, you are just running one, two, or three software tests over and over again. This is a simple enough process if the software you are developing is not really one that has a massive interface bearing more massive features and specs. But for larger applications and programs, going through these tests over and over again, even if they are just two or three in number, would already be very daunting and frustrating on any computer engineer. Moreover, finding bugs and glitches in the software would become all the more difficult if you do this the manual way, by conducting these software tests manually. With automated software tests, all you have to do is configure the tests as to how you would want them to be conducted and you just leave them to do their thing.

There is also the fact that when you incorporate a regression basis in testing applications that are mission-critical, these massive software applications could even require up to thousands upon thousands of tests or cases to be run and re-run all over again. Moreover, these would be done at any given time! It is because of this that automated test scripts are now required to be built really from scratch so that such a demand would be met.

The categories of software testing are as follows: Functionality, Requirements Management, Test Case Preparation, Regression and Performance Testing, Test Management, Defect Tracking and Management, and Test Execution. All of these categories work hand in hand and when you are in the process of developing your automated software test system, all these should also be considered.

Another advantage to having an automated system for software testing is that because everything is done automatically, you would save considerable time as well. Software engineers no longer have to test the software manually when covering glitches and bugs, and these tests usually last for days, weeks, months even for the extremely massive software applications. That same process that usually takes months to manually conduct could actually be jam-packed into a few days with automated testing. Apart from time, since you no longer need your software engineers to spend their time focusing on each nook and cranny of the application being developed, then you would no longer need to pay them for that. The shelling out of additional funds would not take place at all. And this is one of the huge advantages to having automated software testing – for it really watches your back as keenly as it should.