Working with machines are easier than working with people; as people management requires high level of management skills to manage people with different personalities and attitudes. That resulted, go for automation tools to perform tasks/jobs that can be done by human. This is true for software development industry, specially in the stage of “Testing”. Nowadays there are many companies using automated testing tools rather than using many human testers (as many organizations want to reduce their HR cost). Of course there are lots of such testing software (automated tool) can be found in the market. There are lots of advantages of using automation tools for software testing. Why the automated software testing tools are highly recommended than manual testing? Does not it require manual entries? Let's find out answers for these questions.
Automated tools can work faster than human; does not get tired or take breaks as human and reliability is very high compare to manual testing. Anyhow, these tools need human interactions to initiate testing, to input data (when input is required) and so on, but the process is comparatively faster than manual testing. The most important point to note is, these are helpful to perform testing with bulk volume. Test results are reliable; the testing carried out with one batch can be done with another batch and the results can be compared. Also, these are repeatable (can do same testing with same test cases when there is new version releases of product, that helps to ensure the functionality and useability of the product). These tools can be programmable, to do automated testing on certain time and date – to test the product under different circumstances (some products requires these kind of testing, specially live web applications).
Usually human makes errors and that causes faulty product releases by software development companies. Even though there are set of standards are being followed for manual testing, there are possibilities for ignoring few areas to be tested under different platforms in various possible angles of application. Using these automated tools eliminates human error but it is not guaranteed that there will be BUG free product. Even with automation tools, there can be still bugs in the product, but possible errors which can be made by human (end-users) can be eliminated.
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