Pros and Cons of ‘Automated Testing’

   One of the ancient ways of testing..

               Testing that requires a formalized ‘Manual Testing Process’ is known as Automated Testing. It is the use of strategies, tools and artifacts that argument or reduce the need of manual or human involvement or interaction in unskilled, repetitive or redundant tasks.

This type of Testing’s’ currently exists in a company or organization. Testings such as Functional, Regression, Expectation or Negative, stress, performance , load can be automated.

Benefits of Automated Testing

• -          Confirmation
• -          Rapid feedback
• -          Speedy implementation
• -          Frees up the time of the testers
• -          The development team can contribute
• -          Reusuable

Disadvantages of Automated Testing 

• -          False sense of quality
• -          Not consistent
• -          Maintaince Time and Effort
• -          Slow feedback
• -          Not many bugs found

Source : http://www.testingexcellence.com/test-automation-advantages-and-disadvantages/

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