Whats Whys and Hows of Test Automation? [Answers for All of them]
If you are new to test automation or if you are still curious about Test Automation this article is for you.
I will be covering,
- What Test Automation does
- How the testing is automated
- What problems it solves
- Why it was introduced
What Test Automation does
Test Automation carries out software testing with little to zero human intervention with greater speed. Similar to manual testing, in automated testing, validation happens by comparing the actual and the expected values. Depending on the actual and expected value, the test will be marked Pass or Fail.
How the testing is automated
Software testing is automated using software testing tools. From my point of view, I would like to classify automation tools into two categories: technical tools and Non-technical tools.
Technical Tools
These tools required lots of technical expertise and knowledge of coding. Mainly built using test automation tools such as selenium combined with a programming language like Java. There are two main layers of these kinds of tools, the automation core layer where selenium…
