Test Automation

What is Test Automation? When it comes to test automation there can be so many definitions that you can find if you just googled it. So, this is test automation as I feel about it (Note this definition will never ever give you marks at your QA examination 😉). Again, as I feel test automation is a way of making your life easy, interesting and challenging (FUN AND LESS BORING) at your work place. In a formal way It’s using the code to make your computer run most of the tests that you have to run manually. If you wonder, why I said, “most of”? The reason is YOU ARE SMARTER !! so simply you can’t achieve 100% test coverage by test automation. When do we need to Automate tests? Well to answer that question we have to look at several points. Mainly both Automated testes and Manual tests will change their paths at one point at the road. Until then they have to work together. If we elaborate a bit more and automated test can be defined as an improved subset of the manual tests that you h