Brief introduction to Automation testing

Automation testing is the use of strategies, tools and artifacts that augment or reduce the need of manual or human involvement or interaction in unskilled, repetitive or redundant tasks. Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process.

Why hire Automation testers from Nonead

Our competency

Nova's Automation testers have been actively engaged in this field for 2 years. Most of them have 2 years of software test experience. Our competency lies in following aspects:

1.Several types of testing can be Automation:

• Functional test: testing that operations perform as expected.
• Regression test: testing that the behavior of the system has not changed.
• Stress test: determining the absolute capacities of the application and operational infrastructure.
• Performance test: providing assurance that the performance of the system will be adequate for both batch runs and online transactions in relation to business projections and requirements.
• Loading test: determining the points at which the capacity and performance of the system become degraded to the situation that hardware or software upgrades would be required.

2.Several testing tolls can be used:

• Functional and regression testing tools: such as Mercury Quick Test Professional, Mercury WinRunner.
• Load & stress testing of Web applications: such as Mercury Load Runner.

3.Several testing management tools can be used:

• Bug Tracking tools: such as Bug Track, Mantis, etc.
• Test planning and test cases management tools.

4.Other competency:

• For example, excellent communication skills and comprehension ability, strong testing result analysis capability.

As a company, Nova backups our Automation Testers with:

• Effective project management
• Project Inspection Team
• Continual documentations
• Suitable development methodology
• Outstanding communication skills

Our experience

Via accomplishing several Automation testing projects, we found that Automation testing can give clients several benefits as follows:

• Reliable: Tests perform precisely the same operations each time they are run, thereby eliminating human error.
• Repeatable: You can test how the software reacts under repeated execution of the same operations.
• Programmable: You can program sophisticated tests that bring out hidden information from the application.
• Comprehensive: You can build a suite of tests that covers every feature in your application.
• Reusable: You can reuse tests on different versions of an application, even if the user interface changes.
• Better Quality Software: Because you can run more tests in less time with fewer resources.
• Fast: Automation Tools run tests significantly faster than human users.
• Cost Reduction: As the number of resources for regression test are reduced.

We have completed 5 projects in Automation testing field. To learn our expertise in this field, please refer to the related case studies:

• LoadRunner testing result analysis
• A better approach combining Automation and manual testing
• Test Automation
• QTP for Regression Test

Automation testers working time

Nova's Automation testers work dedicatedly for you, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. The dedicated testers will work under your timeframe and you can contact through MSN/Skype. In urgent case, you can also directly call on testers mobile.