What is automation development?

Automation in testing has been around for many years. In fact, since the 1990s, the legendary Mercury company has brought automation, test management, and workload management tools to the world. But only in the last 10 years has it evolved significantly and become an integral part of the software testing process and, more generally, of the software development process. In fact, with DevOps entering the development world, the need for automated testing has become even more essential. There are many different types of software testing, and automation is just one of them. In fact, when people ask what automated development is, they usually mean end-to-end testing or API testing done by an automation tester. In practice, automated testing is much broader and includes a wide range of automated tests.

There are different types of software testing – all of them are relevant

There are several types of automated software testing, such as unit testing (usually performed by programmers), component testing that sits at the seam between development and testing, system-level testing that treats the system under test as a black box, performance load testing, penetration testing, and other types of automated testing. It is more accurate to say that the collection of tools and methods that automate the testing of a system is called automated testing, with each test being a piece of the puzzle and critical to the reliability of the system under test.

Automation development is the process of creating software to perform tasks automatically.

Today, in the world of agile development, test automation as a process that helps ensure the quality of a software product is very common. The field of automated testing in its current form began with giant companies that realized, after drastically shortening the Time To Market through DevOps, that the bottleneck had shifted from the development team to the testing team, and in order to release a quality product faster, we must accelerate the test automation processes and thus test more tests in less time.

We all love quality.

There are many factors that determine software quality, and it's not just the features it provides; the first thing that affects software in the open world of social networks and readily available information is online reviews. Today, you can easily hear about people who have used the software, or you can easily check if there are complaints or feedback on the company's website or social media pages, and this, of course, directly connects to the fact that companies take seriously what their users feel and want to share with the world about their product.

It is worthwhile to treat your product, software, or game as something that is valuable to users - quality and a good reputation can only come after professional software testing.