Do you or your team currently test manually and trying to break into test automation? In this article, we outline how can small QA teams make the transition from manual to codeless testing to full-fledged automated testing. The transition will not happen overnight but can be successfully achieved much easier than anticipated.
1 – Say No to Mundane Repetitive Manual Testing
Your willingness to say no to mundane and boring repetitive manual testing is the first real step towards automated testing! As a team, you need to acknowledge that manual testing is haunted by repetitiveness and is error-prone. Any team will eventually get bogged down by doing the same thing over and over again impacting team motivation. Some teams will overcome this challenge by automating small bits and pieces of repetitive work. For example, a script to import test data into a database, a utility to generate random test data, etc.