10 year old drivers who have been engaged in software testing tell you what type of software is suitable for automation

Not all software projects are suitable for automation

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• ​ ​ Preface ​​
• ​ ​ What is automation ​​
• ​ ​ Why automate ​​
• ​ ​ Advantages and disadvantages of automation ​​
• ​ ​ What kind of projects are suitable for automation ​​
• ​ ​ What kind of people are suitable for automation ​​
• ​ ​ If you have a code base , How to learn if you want to engage in automated testing ？​​
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Preface

   I have met many colleagues , Because they've been doing manual tests before , Now I'm eager to do automated testing , There is no lack of work 5 More than one year old . I have been engaged in software automation testing for nearly 5 year , from server End to web End , from API To mobile, Experience the benefits and pain of Automation , Share your personal experience here , Want to automate , First, you have to understand some common problems of automated testing

What is automation

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• automated testing , seeing the name of a thing one thinks of its function , Automatically complete the test work . Through some automatic testing tools or self-made wheels, we can realize the manual point before simulation / Write the work and verify the results to complete the whole testing process , This kind of testing process , It's automated testing .
• automated testing , It looks beautiful , It feels like the first industrial revolution , It ushered in the era of replacing manual labor with machines , But it is not . Because every automated test is case It all starts with manual testing
• If there is no basis for manual testing , There is no way to automate testing
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Why automate

Why automated testing , The answer lies in the benefits of automated testing and the cost of human flesh testing ：

a. Automated testing saves cost ( According to the project )

After all, automated testing does liberate a lot of manpower （ The cost of labor is IT The company's biggest cost ）, The machine can perform some repetitive work day and night .

b. Some test projects are hard to implement by hand ( The cost of manual work is high )

such as 12306 The stress test of 、 The load test , At the same time to find so many people to test the unreality can be simulated through the machine .

c. The project quality process requires

For example, version management needs build verify, In order to make sure check in Of code It doesn't affect the repository . Be similar to smoke test

Advantages and disadvantages of automation

​ advantage ​

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• Avoid boredom of testers due to repetitive work
• Improve test efficiency
• Ensure consistency and repeatability of each test
• Better use of unattended time
• Do some tests that can't be done by hand
• Maintenance costs are relatively high
  ​ shortcoming ​
• System development time may not be shortened
  - No manual test found many defects
• UI layout issue Hard to find
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What kind of projects are suitable for automation

Projects with the following characteristics are more suitable for automated testing ：

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2. Less project change
3. Cycle is long
4. Project resources are sufficient （ Automation is not done by one person , It needs a group of people to maintain it for a long time ）
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   Illustrate with examples ： Internet Project , It's going online in a week , If you don't go online, others don't need you , The project cycle is short , Change fast , You haven't done automation yet , Maybe the project will be offline . For example, some gems 12 Activities related projects , It's offline in a week . Projects suitable for automated testing , For example, a certain treasure client , Every release, Most of the features remain the same , also 3-5 The project will not go offline within the year , This is more suitable for automation .

What kind of people are suitable for automation

   This question is for people who want to do automated testing , Maybe you think the threshold of software testing is very low , So low that anyone can do , Just a little , This industry is too low 了 , So you want to do automated testing , Improve your style , I want to say that manual testing is not low, If one doesn't understand anything , People who have no business foundation do tests , Can you measure the problem ？ Don't ignore your business knowledge reserve .

The accumulation of your business knowledge can make you an irreplaceable industry expert , The automated yard farmers' Association has been replaced by small fresh meat because of the change of times .

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That's all , What kind of people can do automated testing ？

My understanding is divided into several points ：

a. Have code capabilities

Master a development language ,java、Python、ruby、c#

b. Be familiar with the tested system

For example, you are web test , You have to understand js、css、html、xpath

You are a mobile test , You have to have Android Development basis and iOS Development infrastructure , Meeting debug app

You are a C/S You need to be familiar with the test TCP、IP agreement

c. Master a set of automatic testing framework ( Tools )

such as selenium/appium

nunit/testng

robot framework/cucumber

d. Good at learning , To know what it is to know what it is

IT The industry is changing too fast , Something new will appear every once in a while , There will also be things that used to be very hot gradually decline , No one can predict .

Once Nokia was the mobile phone overlord , Dominate the world by Saipan , But don't think about making progress , End up selling for survival .

once qtp A fire , once selenium It's also very hot , Now? appium It's also very hot

Software industry from desktop software to web End , Again from web End to mobile , No one knows what's next . And we act as    Practitioners in the software industry , You can't let yourself fall because those things that are very hot are no longer hot , A person is the most nuclear The ability of the mind is the ability to learn , If you are good at learning , You don't have to worry about these changes , Because you can move without pressure ,selenium You have mastered the principle of , Study appium It's a piece of cake , because appium It uses selenium WebDriver protocol . If you can know what it is and why , You can also make wheels , reform appium, After all, many functions need to be improved now .

​ If you don't reach the above points , I suggest you do a manual test .​

If you have a code base , How to learn if you want to engage in automated testing ？

Many beginners are tangled , learn qtp Or learn selenium

My suggestion is to learn selenium, Open source , Free of charge , You can download the source code research , To understand how it works , And now selenium Don't have too much information , Just search a lot , It's easier to learn .

​ Recording is not recommended ~~~​

It's not recommended to learn selenium IDE Recording , Of course, you can learn by recording some and then converting them into corresponding scripts , When you learn selenium, Learn again appium You will have a natural deja vu . Why not suggest learning QTP/UFT？ Because of the charge / Overstaffed / Now there is not much work to do desktop software testing .

About buying books , It is not recommended to buy books , Many books are out of date , And quality slag , You bought... From those books code It's no longer usable , If you really want to learn , Just go to the official website to find example, Go to the corresponding community and group communication , Or look directly at API/ Source code .