Test automation can be part of QA work on the project, however there are some limitations you should consider before you start with test automation development:

General overview

• Test automation is optional, there are limitations (see below) you should consider before you offer it to customer

• Test automation should be always on top of regular QA work on the project

• Test automation needs development, so there should be added allocation for QA Analyst expected

• Test automation will help with regular regression testing when the solution is stable

  • customer should expect benefits from test automation mainly after Go-Live

• Especially recommended for large projects which are expected to run for more than 6 months or projects where multiple phase implementation is foreseen/known 

• Test automation will never replace manual testing on the project

  • manual testing is much more effective during development

  • stable solution is needed for test automation development, there can be only limited benefit from test automation during development

Main benefits

• The same tests can be repeated every day to check the key functionality is working correctly

• Regular checking of functionality is especially useful when new version or fix is deployed

• Regularly checked functionality leads to more satisfied customer

• In case there is a bug in key functionality after update, it is quickly found and reported

• There is a test report generated automatically after each test run

• Test automation scripts can be developed based on customer business cases

Limitations

• Just for Unity UI, so there should be no problem for new projects

• Stable solution is needed so there are very limited benefits during new development

• Only in Pfx sw, test automation is not covering integration and customer’s internal systems

• Mainly for functional testing via user interface

• Not very useful for Price Optimizer testing

Tool overview

• Cypress.io - open source java script based test automation framework

• The tool is used globally by many companies, the tool is safe for future testing

• The tools is free of charge - no additional cost for our projects

• The tool is used by different teams of Pricefx, it means growing knowledge and sharing experiences between projects