Nothing is simple anymore. Everything requires many steps and checklist after checklist. All this manual work becomes tedious. Repetition becomes a major cost to any organization. Not just with wasted hours, but an increased likelihood of operator mistakes.

Anywhere you look there is a need for automation. Even internal application suffer from duplicated effort at times. Often the turnaround on usability features for such applications is simply too slow, or minimal priority to the development team.

The goal is always to reduce the amount of manual labour. By eliminating duplication you can improve employee morale, have more time for other projects, and provide better adherence to checklists.

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Test Automation

The use of automation in testing is extremely vital. It serves both the purpose of data generation and as an automated test suite. Investing in automated tests can save thousands of hours of testing effort and ensure higher quality releases.

Data Generation

Setup and data generation waste a lot of time.

Its first role is to assist the manual testers. We would be foolish to believe that manual testing will ever disappear. But this doesn't mean the testers should keep doing everything themselves. Many tests tend to involve a series of setup steps before the actual test could be performed. Having to perform the setup manually every time is simply wasted time.

Often tests require a large volume of data, or at least several entries. Again here having the tester repeatedly enter such information is not a good use of time. Preferable would be to have an automated test populate the system and then the test user can step in and test.

Test Case Automation

Automated tests provide good coverage of old features.

As an application lives through several iterations there will simply be too many features for a tester to cover. Testers rightfully focus on new application features. Having automated tests cover old features, or at least the primary use cases, is very beneficial. Despite nothing having tested everything manually the testing team can still have a good overall impression of the system.

Creating an automated test suite which can migrate with the application is not a trivial task however. Many, if not most, automation tools are ill-suited to this purpose. If done incorrectly you may easily waste more time on automation than with a manual test.

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