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What are the Risks associated in Automation Testing?The risks of Automation Testing are:
1. Do you have skilled resources?
The automation testing demands resources with some knowledge about programming. Focus on the resources. Identify whether the resources have proper knowledge for automation testing. Are they capable to adapt easily to the new technologies? These measures are to be well assessed for building an automation testing team.
2. The initial cost for automation is high.
The initial cost for automation is too high for initial setup. It costs automated tool purchase, training ad maintenance of the test scripts. The unsatisfied customer base is high for automation testing their products. It should be ensured that the cost compensates the testing results.
3. If UI is not fixed, do not thing about automation:
Prior to automating the user interface, it should strongly be determined that, whether the UI is changing extensively or the cost of the automated script maintenance is high or not.
4. Make sure that the application is stable enough:
To automate the early development cycle unless or otherwise it is Agile environment, would not be a good idea. It costs script maintenance cost very high.
5. Stop automating the tests which run once:
Ensure that certain test cases might be running once and not included in the regression testing. Avoid automating such test modules.What are the Risks associated in Automation Testing?1. Skilled resources are required which increases the cost.
2. If the UI is suspected to a lot of changes, Automation testing must be avoided since script maintenance can be high.
3. Since automation tools are expensive, it must be ensured that the application to be tested is stable and really requires automation testing.
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