How Self-healing Automation Can help your Test Automation

Unlike in the past, Test automation is no more limited only to record and play methods and parameterized testing processes. Automation processes are evolving on a daily basis, and newer automation tools are released on a frequent basis. To remain competitive in the market, organizations are now thinking positively about achieving complete automation and adopting hyper-automation testing strategies to achieve more in less time. Apart from this companies are also adopting various techniques to build an optimized and effective Test automation framework that is helping organizations to significantly reduce the testing cost while increasing quality and speed-to-market.

This article will highlight the ways Self-healing Test Automation can improve our Test Automation efforts.

How does Self-healing Automation work?

Self-healing scripts use analytics to identify objects in a script even after they have changed. Once identified the script automatically updates tests when changes are made to the application.

How can self-healing scripts improve the effectiveness of your Test automation?

1. Increased efficiency

Self-healing scripts were brought into practice as companies wanted to save on their test execution time. As many times there were technical glitches in the automation script which required manual intervention. This would lead to failure of Test automation along with loss of time and money as a manual intervention would lead to increased cost of Test automation.

1. Handle Test Flakiness

One of the crucial advantages of using self-healing scripts is that it can prevent the issue of flaky tests. A number of factors like async wait and concurrency can lead to flaky tests that make it difficult for the testing teams to determine whether or not their tests are stable. Self-healing test automation can help to sort these types of tests and find solutions to fix them. This will help in implementing test automation and achieving high test coverage by reducing redundant code in the script.

3. Reduce the Test Maintenance

Self-healing test automation scripts are effective in reducing the burden of maintaining tests. In traditional Test automation, we see a number of scripts failing which can lead to the testing team losing interest in completing the automation task. Self-healing scripts can help repair these failing tests, thereby reducing overall maintenance efforts.

Conclusion:

Companies have realized that they need to optimize their time-to-market metrics, maximize their resource utilization, and scale their team’s productivity while delivering a quality product to their customers. In the article, we saw how self-healing scripts can help in reducing the number of failed tests, prevent flaky ones, and how it can be effective in saving time and effort. Self-healing scripts will certainly be in trend in the test automation industry.

To implement Test automation in our project, we need to implement best practices and also build an optimized, easily maintainable framework, and using self-healing scripts can help us in achieving this. Testrig Technologies can help you in building an optimized framework and reduce your Test automation efforts.

At Testrig, we care about your test automation problems and develop solutions that work for you. As a premier automation testing company, we're here to help you overcome any challenges you may face. Contact us today to get started!

I am Ashwini Lanje representing Testrig Technologies - A software testing and Quality Assurance company in the Usa