Quality is valued beyond all things in many businesses. If it is discovered that you work for such a company, but that formal test automation has not yet been implemented, you may be the one to kick off the process.  

Your business will benefit from being able to produce more high-quality goods faster and launch them earlier. With the advent of CI/CD and DevOps, test automation has only grown in relevance. Test automation first gained notoriety with the agile development movement. Promising automation tools have emerged in a variety of languages and platforms because of the maturation of tools and frameworks.  

Finding the right tool for your needs might be difficult when there is a huge selection available. If you are struggling to choose the ideal automation tool for your purposes, your research has ended.  

Continue reading as we discuss some crucial factors that you can use to choose the best test automation tools and frameworks. 

1. Technology/Platform Stack 

The Platform/technology stack is one of the most important criteria that is often overlooked. Selecting a tool from the same stack makes sense if your development team is well-versed in that stack. You want your developers to use the automation tests and possibly even add to them. When it’s necessary to improve/correct the automated tests, management also gets simpler. Select a JavaScript framework if your development environment uses JavaScript (React/Angular/Nightwatch Plus Node.js, for example). On either hand, if your design is more advanced and uses middleware or an ESB together with server-side languages like Java or C#, go with that one.  

2. A system’s Intricacy 

Analyse the layers and level of complexity of your system. Your automation tool must be more “comprehensive” if your system contains a greater number of components. You must ensure that you can expand your tests to all the layers, such as the front-end JS layer, server-side business logic, API layer, ESB, database layer, etc. (or at least have a set of tools that play well with each other).  

3. Enterprise Case 

Setting up and maintaining a long-term Test Automation initiative depends on the ROI calculation. When multiplying the number of tests by the time and effort required to conduct them manually, keep in mind the periodicity of such testing. For the creation and management of an automated test suite, request bids from test automation service providers and perform an ROI analysis. You might be shocked to learn that manual testing can sometimes be more affordable and efficient!  

In order to compare the costs of open source vs. corporate tools for speedier development, tool integration, reporting and management abilities, etc.  

4. Roadmap for Products 

Don’t focus solely on your most recent tests and application. Think about the features you plan to introduce and how often you consider your product strategy. Ask your programmers if the present development platform can accommodate all the additional features or if you need to switch to some other new platform.  

If your application is expected to undergo a lot of modifications, the maintenance of automated testing will also increase dramatically. Make sure your automation test environment makes it simple to alter the automation code’s behaviour. 

5. Monitoring and Reporting 

What types of reporting and analytics do you require, as discussed, and documented? You can get execution results from the majority of test automation tools but seek a dashboard that lets you analyse trends. Think about integrating tools for defect and test management.  

Add stack trace recording during automation execution so that QA and developers may troubleshoot if there are frequent failures. 

 6. Methodologies for Developing Products 

Make sure the development of your test automation integrates with how you create and distribute new products, repairs, and additions, etc.  

Test automation is regarded as a crucial security net if your projects are managed utilising the Agile methodology or a CI/CD workflow. However, the automation tests are prone to failure far more commonly in the absence of a common understanding or “design contract”. The tests must be kept up to date with the application with a lot of work. Therefore, having a strong test suite to give the developers quick feedback can greatly mitigate this cost. 

7. Test Automation Tools 

Today, there are several solutions available for test automation, all of which claim to be the “Perfect Solution.” There are several options available, ranging from test automation products to code-oriented tools like Selenium, HP UFT, Cypress, Playwright etc.  

Most test automation systems either leverage a “Keyword Driven” model or a parametrized “Record-and-Playback Driven” model, and thus guarantee that non-technical QA teams may use them with ease. However, if your apps have complex operations, you might want to conduct a thorough feasibility test. Even with these products, development and execution can be very difficult because it’s possible that the underlying code isn’t editable. 

8. Tests with Multiple Codebases 

You might have UI Tests based on contemporary JavaScript frameworks, web services/APIs, numerous interfaces, iOS/Android, etc. depending on the layout of your application. There will be various code bases in your Automation Suite for various components of your application. 

 Make sure your infrastructure and tools can operate from a single control structure in this case. Integrated Testing 

Most business applications do not exist independently. Both input and output are provided by them to other applications. It’s possible that a business cycle won’t be finished until data has been verified across several applications. This means that your tests should be conducted on numerous applications running on various platforms, not just one. 

9. Strategy for Long-Term Maintenance 

If tests aren’t updated to match your applications, they could quickly become obsolete. The instability is more likely to occur in automated tests. Create a maintenance strategy, allow time to rewrite part of the tests, and be ready to move the automated tests to a different tool or platform if necessary.

10. Conclusion  

You will be well-informed and, in a condition, to choose a Test Automation tool that best suits your needs if you take all the aforementioned factors into account. We have provided a guideline for your convenience, which will allow you to cross off crucial requirements for your tool selection and assist your decision-making process. 

 11. How can TestDel assist you in test automation?  

Our Experienced automation test engineers help your company succeed by automating test releases, shortening time-to-market, lowering costs, increasing test coverage, testing across various platforms, and improving end-product quality. Many projects have been saved from failure because of our software test automation approach, which addresses QA bottlenecks at breakneck speed. 

• Web App Test Automation 
• Mobile App Test Automation 
• Desktop App Test Automation 
• Continuous Testing 
• Performance and Load Testing 
• API Testing

Please get in touch with us to learn more about automation testing.