Smart integration of the worlds of manual, automated and mass testing is a weakness in many companies, and has a direct impact on the decision whether to release a product or version to market or return it for further work. A new approach offers a holistic solution and optimization in the world of testing. A software company must have a good idea, great developers and creative interface designers, but without strict and thorough software testers all work can go down the drain. The QA departments are responsible for ensuring that the software or application exits the company gates without any glitches, no matter who the user is, which operating system is installed on the device and in which language it is running; They are an important part of a chain that determines the customer experience, and accordingly the success of the product and its compliance with consumer expectations.
Software testers perform the tests in a variety of methods and ways. Some are designed to make sure there are no glitches, some are usability tests, some are done manually by the company’s QA team, some are performed by masses (Crowd Testing) and some using automated tools. In order to enter the market with a perfect product, companies must perform a combination of tests: Test automation provides more reliable and faster results, enabling versions of applications to be released to the market more quickly. When manual tests are added to this, which are amplified with mass testing (Crows-testing), a picture is obtained that complements the coverage gaps of the automatic tests, helps to verify faults and provides a complete and reliable overview of the product quality.
Indeed, most companies and organizations rely on automated and manual testing in their testing strategy, but most of them run the tests simultaneously and separately and are not synchronized with each other, so that unnecessary and less quality tests are often performed. At the end of the process the QA managers need to concentrate all the feedback from all the tests into one place, and only then start working on improving and correcting the problems found.
leads to unnecessary and cumbersome work, waste of time and resources and the need for double budgeting. A little mess and disorder in the results obtained is enough, and the conclusions may harm the company’s business goals and the chances of success of the software or application. To date, QA departments have required a great deal of effort to manage the vast amount of information flowing from the variety of quality tests performed and to examine the information on many dashboards, in order to get a snapshot of the tests, their quality and results.
All the information in one place
results, the integrated testing approach has been developed, which allows for a holistic perspective on all test results and thus make decisions quickly and efficiently. This approach combines in one place all the information and results of all types of tests – understandable and incomprehensible, manual or automatic; Design tests, usability, accessibility and more. This way the QA teams have a look at and complete control over all the testing processes and all the results, and they can easily conduct an in-depth investigation of each problem.
An integrated solution can completely reduce the complexity and loads often created as a result of the multiplicity of testing platforms, and even makes it possible to grow and expand the work environment for all business units.
An integrated solution includes several components and features. The dashboard, the main screen in the system, shows the complete list of tests – manual or automatic – and whether they succeeded or failed. When this information appears in one place, it is easier to identify patterns of faults and the connections between different failed tests, so that managers can make a quicker and more informed decision about releasing the product or continuing to work on it.
The integrated approach seamlessly supports the CI / CD workflow process, and when a new software or version is ready for testing you can quickly create a new test cycle and see the results on the screen in real time.
First the results of the automatic tests appear, as they are faster, and then the manual tests and the mass tests. From there you can perform manual tests or repeat mass tests, in order to prevent False Negatives from the automatic tests, and the repeat test results are also updated on the dashboard. All test history is available at all times and can be used to understand trends and strengthen testing strategy, and test results and bugs can also be exported to other systems like JIRA.
Each company must conduct tests before the product arrives on the market, and each one makes its own considerations in choosing the types of tests. But testing management, which leads to making decisions that affect the product and the company, seems to be a weakness in many of them, a point that can be strengthened using tools that exist in the market and can save valuable time in all departments and management.