Automation is something of a phenomenon these days and it’s not just the hype, the results are actually pretty good. Ask anyone who has introduced transformation into their organization and they’ll tell you how test automation improved their releases cycles and introduced agility into their development cycles.
From end-to-end automation testing to QA Automation testing and regression testing, there’s a whole lot of options for organizations to implement and drive results based on their specific needs.
However, even with all those benefits and the increasing implementation of test automation, many organizations still face problems with it, not achieving the results they expected or desired. This is partly due to improper or undefined implementation of test automation but there’s another reason which is often overlooked.
Even a lot of companies who claim to provide test automation consulting services often fail to understand the importance of this one change that will have a colossal impact on the results of test automation.
So, what is this one thing that’ll transform test automation?
The secret nobody talks about
The one thing that’ll have a great impact on your test automation efforts is organizational transformation. When it comes to automation, people often think of it as just a technological implementation expecting things at the organizational level to stay as they are and that’s where they fail.
In addition to automation, there has to be a proper structure and clarity on roles and responsibilities at the organization to have the maximum benefit from test automation implementation.
When you fuse technological implementation and organizational changes, you can streamline workflows and responsibilities to deliver services faster than your competitors. Choosing a tool like Tricentis’ Tosca could help with this transformation as it’s both technology-agnostic and script-less.
It also helps in delivering faster technologies without a lot of effort by the team. So, how do you make this happen?
How to make organizational changes in your organization?
In order to make organizational changes to help with the test automation implementation, you’ll need to take two key steps:
- Automate various test cases
- Improve knowledge transfer
Let’s get into the details of each.
1. Automate various test cases
Most organizations when implementing automation often automate only the menial tasks that need no cognitive thinking whatsoever. Building automation test cases for more tasks by truly understanding what needs to be done can have a huge impact on automation.
However, this needs to have a committed team of experts who are not only in control of the test case environment but also are accountable for any failures that may occur during or after the implementation.
2. Improve the knowledge transfer
With an increased exploratory testing, you can ensure that the teams responsible for the test cases are accountable for them. This enables you to quickly do your testing for the user stories and focus on the automation, automating within the sprint as you go.
These two things may seem trivial but the results that they reap are entirely profitable as it provides an improvement in cost, effort, and time to market. It also allows you to reuse automation regression for data validation that saves hundreds of thousands of manual hours. Moreover, user adoption and productivity improves as the quality of data increases.
