Test automation is the use of software to control the execution of tests, the comparison of actual outcomes to predicted outcomes, the setting up of test preconditions, and other test control and test reporting functions. Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... In the scientific method, an experiment (Latin: ex- periri, of (or from) trying) is a set of observations performed in the context of solving a particular problem or question, to support or falsify a hypothesis or research concerning phenomena. ...

Over the past few years, tools that help programmers quickly create applications with graphical user interfaces (GUI) have dramatically improved programmer productivity. This has increased the pressure on testers, who are often perceived as bottlenecks to the delivery of software products. Testers are being asked to test more and more code in less and less time. Test automation is one way to do this, as manual testing is time consuming. As different versions of software are released, the new features will have to be tested manually time and again. But, now there are tools available that help the testers in the automation of the GUI which reduce the test time as well as the cost; other test automation tools support execution of performance tests. A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, that is, one who writes computer software. ... “GUI” redirects here. ... A bottleneck is literally the neck of a glass or pottery bottle. ... In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same type. ...

Many test automation tools provide record and playback features that allow users to record interactively user actions and replay it back any number of times, comparing actual results to those expected. However, reliance on these features poses major reliability and maintainability problems. Most successful automators use a software engineering approach, and as such most serious test automation is undertaken by people with development experience. Playback could mean: Playback singing, a practice in Bollywood musicals. ... Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software. ...

A growing trend in software development is to use testing frameworks such as the xUnit frameworks (for example, JUnit and NUnit) which allow the code to conduct unit tests to determine whether various sections of the code are acting as expected in various circumstances. Test cases describe tests that need to be run on the program to verify that the program runs as expected. All three aspects of testing can be automated. Various code-driven testing frameworks have come to be known collectively as xUnit. ... Insert non-formatted text here For the Egyptian goddess Junit, see Junit (goddess). ... NUnit is an open source unit testing framework for Microsoft . ... In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same type. ... In computer programming, a unit test is a procedure used to validate that a particular module of source code is working properly. ... In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same type. ... This article is about the term in software engineering. ...

Another important aspect of test automation is the idea of partial test automation, or automating parts but not all of the software testing process. If, for example, an oracle cannot reasonably be created, or if fully automated tests would be too difficult to maintain, then a software tools engineer can instead create testing tools to help human testers perform their jobs more efficiently. Testing tools can help automate tasks such as product installation, test data creation, GUI interaction, problem detection (consider parsing or polling agents equipped with oracles), defect logging, etc., without necessarily automating tests in an end-to-end fashion. Software testing is the process used to measure the quality of developed computer software. ... In complexity theory and computability theory, an oracle machine is an abstract machine used to study decision problems. ...

Test automation is expensive and it is an addition, not a replacement, to manual testing. It can be made cost-effective in the longer term though, especially in regression testing. One way to generate test cases automatically is model-based testing where a model of the system is used for test case generation, but research continues into a variety of methodologies for doing so. Regression testing is any type of software testing which seeks to uncover regression bugs. ... Model-based testing is software testing in which test cases are derived in whole or in part from a model that describes some (usually functional) aspects of the system under test (SUT). ...

See also

• IBM Rational Functional Tester
• SmarteSoft SmarteScript
• UnitTest The C++ Unit Test Framework
• BuildBot
• Dogtail
• Fanfare Group
• Test Automation Framework
• HttpUnit
• JUnit
• Keyword-driven testing
• Model-based testing
• NUnit
• Parasoft
• PyUnit
• QuickTest Professional
• Software testing
• Unit test
• Microsoft Visual Test
• WET Web Tester
• Ranorex
• JMeter
• iMacros
• WinRunner
• Test Anything Protocol

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References

• Elfriede Dustin: Automated Software Testing ISBN 0-20143-287-0

External links

• Article Practical Experience in Automated Testing
• Test Automation: An Architected Approach