Test Automation – Is it a Specialized Career? Can Normal Testers Do Automation Also?
Over the last decade, test automation has undergone multiple facets of changes. Same vendors have introduced new tools, open source tools have come to stay, and still, some vendors are marketing their products as the ultimate solution for Quality. CTOs of the organizations are convinced that automation is going to give them greater benefits in squeezing the cost and time over long run. Service providers have introduced several ultimate frameworks which save the effort of automation testers – right from standard data-driven, Key-word, Hybrid to script-less frameworks whereby business users can create automation scripts without the hassles of Java or VB scripting knowledge. This ultimately led us to the question if a dedicated automation test scripting community is required or the normal testers can do automation also? There are many articles stating that test automation should be group automation – it should not be a dedicated, aligned team working on automation scripts/projec...