Why we Automate Testing ? – User friendly Tech help

Lot number of times it happens that we start with things what we never realized that why we are doing it .Same happened with me, when i was  a newbie to automation, I never thought why we are going for it , and only thought that came it my mind was that it is just a mundane task like any other assignments in IT world.But slowly and steadily as things progressed, i thought of asking WHY ? .
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  • Speed”, we automate the manual flow, thus it performed better than the manual person visiting the test cases(Test steps) and running each step individually.
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  • Repeat ability”, thus resulting in greater “Return on Investment”, as tasks can automated and ran as many number of time as it is required.
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  • Coverage”, it helped us to ran the same scripts on different environment thus increasing the coverage of testing like various OS versions, Microsoft Office versions and even localization’s.
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  • Reliability”, as same task is ran again and again, it was very monotonous for manual person testing the same thing again and again , and it resulted in errors (like Skipping the flow, to shorten the task) .
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  • Re usability”, we reused most of the coding part like Login functions,global functions to connect to databases.
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  • Time Saving”, as it was automation, so no manual effort was required thus it saved the effort of that person
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  • Convenient”, our team worked on projects where it was required to test the application in non-working hours (PST timings), thus automation was more convenient rather than person sitting in night shifts and doing the testing(We scheduled our tasks to be automatically triggered)
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  • Program ability“, As automation uses a coding language, thus we are able to leverage this to automate sophisticated program steps and to bring out the hidden information.
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Above points are mostly interlinked, on the whole we can say that, why we automate? so as to  make testers life easier 🙂

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Meaning of Automation Frameworks?

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Implementation of Automation?

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