6 Steps To Eradicate Mistakes Using Mobile Test Automation Strategy

In this article, we are going to outline 6 steps through which you can eradicate mistakes using the Mobile Test Automation Strategy. The following are the steps to eradicate common mistakes.

1) Test-Driven Through The User Interface Completely:

When you search over the internet, you will find that most of the tools which you want to use for test automation are UI (User Interface) based. When you use these tools for the test automation than for the very first time they can help you to automate the test cases in just a few minutes. You can continue to work on these tools over six months where you may not notice very significant performance degradation in the software testing.

But, as the application undergoes business logic changes and becomes complex in the logic over the period of time then the existing test automation scripts on the automation tool start failing soon and take a lot of time to execute as it may not be easy to maintain all the test cases so easily with the ongoing changes. Also, the volume of the test suites and test cases have increased significantly over the period of time.

The automation test suite which happens to take a few hours to complete its execution will be taking almost a half-day to complete. You may want to use the tool for automation after office hours so that the test results will be ready the next day but you may notice the hurdles such as test computer got locked, or database got locked due to incorrect password attempts have exceeded, etc. As a result, your test results may not be ready on the next day and which may delay the feedback to the development team.

You can overcome such situations after carefully choosing the testing tool which does not give up so fast with the increase of the volume of tests and where the test scripts are very easy to maintain as the business logic of an application changes over the period of time.

2) Ignore Test Tooling i.e. The Build, Test, And Deploy Pipeline:

Test tooling is thought to speed up the testing process but in a true sense, it is not the case. The reason is that although the build, test, and deployment process are automated for the test there are many other things that take the actual toll in terms of testing duration. They are setting up the testing environment, test cases, test data, cutover plan, testing strategy, etc.

In Mobile Test Automation Strategy, we can use test tooling only if there was a bottleneck before or time-consuming process but if your bottleneck in the testing process is because of something else say test environment or loading test data then your focus should be on these processes instead of test tooling. We should include a thing to the test automation which could speed up the blocking or bottleneck part of the test process but not to the process which is not at all time-consuming.

3) Test Tooling Cannot Be A Single But Large Program:

We cannot use a single large program for the test tooling. Instead of that the test cases and scripts to test the program should be broken down into smaller modules so that if any failure is noticed during the test of the program, then it can be debugged easily. If the test is applied to the large program, then the identification of the failure point will be very difficult and, therefore, in this case, the test tooling on a single but large program adds no value but it is a non-recommended test automation approach.

4) Setting Up of Test Data Through The Manual Approach:

Testers often complain that they have spent significant time in the creation of test data on the top of test cases. For example, the static data related to customer and their payment details were captured through the user interface that creates the customers. Such a manual approach to creating test data at times could be error-prone. Instead of manually creating data into the system, it is recommended to use test tools that can generate data automatically and save our time. Another approach could be to prepare the database SQL scripts to load the data from a higher environment to the test environment after scrambling the PI data.

5) Keep Tests Distinct And Separate From Development:

When the test automation scripts are created based on the requirements then it may be a common mistake that the bugs are getting created as the assumption on which the test scripts were generated are held no longer valid. For example, in the case of UI, the test on the test box was based on the id of the text box which might have altered by the developer, or the database column which supposed get a particular value for a scenario has coded for some other valid value, etc. These are some common mistakes that could be avoided if we are keeping the project documentation updated at a centralized location and the teams are collaborating with each other frequently.

6) Copy And Paste of Your Test Code:

The test scripts which were developed at the beginning of the test automation project cannot be expected to behave the same in all the case. Therefore, if the testers are doing copy and paste of the existing scripts to create a new test automation script then it cannot be expected to work smoothly always. It may appear that the new scripts were well-coded through copy and paste but they can end into error, not because of bad coding but due to bad scripting. Therefore, instead of copy and paste of test script to create a new test script, you should prefer to write a new test script from scratch.

Conclusion

After considered the above 6 steps to mitigate the common mistakes made during the mobile test automation strategy, the testing team will face no hurdle during the test automation but a smooth testing phase.

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