Here are some of the best practices a software development and the testing team should use to ensure quality software.
- Decide what to automate
- It’s not possible or practical to automate certain tests, such as usability, accessibility, exploratory testing, or non-repetitive test cases that frequently change.
- Assign test cases based on skill and experience
- When dividing test cases, take into account the skills and experience of the tester and the complexity and severity of the feature under test.
- Removing Uncertainty
- The whole goal of test automation is to have reliable, accurate, consistent tests that provide helpful feedback to the tester. If the tests fail due to bugs in the test itself, or it’s giving false positives, then the ROI on test automation starts decreasing.
- Choosing the right frameworks and tools
- There are a lot of tools to perform automation testing. Picking the wrong tool for the test at hand will waste time and provide false confidence to release software that may fail in production.
- Keeping test records in a bug database
- Using a bug database is a best practice whether a team uses test automation or not.
- Whenever new bugs are found by the automation tool or by the testers, they should be recorded in a bug tracking tool with the exact steps to reproduce the bugs and other details.
