Saturday, February 18, 2017

The Pros And The Cons Of Testing And Automation Programming Services

By Carol McDonald


A PSA or professional service automation is the software designed and being utilized for providing assistance to professionals such as auditors, lawyers and IT consultants who have projects that concern on project and resource management for clients. Accomplishing this is being done through the development of some metrics to quantify and to qualify basic business processes and improving them as well.

Typically, a PSA is made for some functions like billing, project management, reporting, documentation, labor utilization, and time recording. These features are offered by the automation programming services Vancouver that are often integrated with payroll systems, accounting, and customer relationship management systems. Through these, overall operations efficiency can be improved.

The result for this would be better management of client projects and the independent contractors would prevent the lost of revenue and slow the billing cycles. The software also allows users on integrating industry metrics so that the operations can be better understood, thus, improving profitability and efficiency. As businesses continue to grow, the complexity and size of projects will also increase.

Before a software will be released performing some tests would be very important in order to prevent some further problems once the system has been used already. The most common type of testing that is being used is the automated testing. It automates the manual tests which are often used in most companies or organizations.

The process has been used with some tools, strategies, and artifacts which will reduce or will augment the human involvement or the manual processes. Traditional processes usually are considered to have involved some repetitive, unskilled, and redundant tasks. There are two minimal processes involved here, namely detailed test cases and standalone environment.

Detailed cases include the expected and the predictable results which are developed from design documentation and from functional specifications in businesses. While a standalone environment include a test database that is restorable to known constant. Just like the test cases, it can also be repeating during the modification of application.

There are a lot of benefits that an automated testing provides. These include being repeatable, reusable, fast, cost reduction, reliable, comprehensive, and better software quality. However, the benefits may be achieved only when appropriate tools are being used and when appropriate organizational areas are targeted for the deployment.

During the testing processes, the testers will need to follow some important guidelines. These important guidelines are being concise, self checking, repeatable, robust, sufficient, necessary, clear, efficient, specific, independent, maintainable, and traceable. By following all these guidelines, achieving the benefits can surely be made possible.

However, there may also be some disadvantages that an automation testing may bring. One is the proficiency when writing the test scripts. There is this one major problem that often occurs at first and that is debugging test scripts. So because of this, there is a great, possibility of having minor or major errors on scripts, and thus, may possibly result to having deadly consequences. The maintenance of tests may also be costly for the playback methods. Replacing the scripts could be possible, especially for possible minor changes to occur. Lastly, it can be difficult for data files to be maintained.




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