Many cases warrant a part of testing exercise to be repetitive. A typical case is when a product is being implemented with customizations, and the product needs to be tested in its new version. There are two ways to approach this challenge – either you build a completely fresh test case and test the application or automate the tests for the core product and manually carry out incremental testing.

The first approach necessitates going back to the drawing board and is often time consuming and has direct impact on the time lines and the resultant opportunity costs due to the delay in going live.  Also there is more risk of defects in the new functionality than assuring the quality of existing unchanged functionality.

Using Test Automation allows the core product testing to be conducted in an automated mode, checking it for the changes in the kernel resulting due to customizations undertaken. The actual customizations done can be then tested manually to arrive at the final test case analysis. This provides for a quicker testing methodology and also results in lower total costs and reduced go-live-time.

At SNS, our test automation services focus on:

• Conducting a thorough analysis on whether automation is required
• Identifying areas that can benefit from automation
• Analyzing the application if it is ready for automation
• Designing an automation strategy
• Formulation of objectives of automation
• Selecting the appropriate tools for automation

SNS’s comprehensive approach enables clients to maximize the benefits that test automation can offer.  Clients have been able to reduce their costs and have quicker development cycles with the use of our services in this area.