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The managing director wants 100% automated testing. A case history
Author(s) -
Fewster Mark
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
software testing, verification and reliability
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1689
pISSN - 0960-0833
DOI - 10.1002/stvr.4370010205
Subject(s) - automation , test (biology) , integration testing , computer science , hydrostatic test , manual testing , software engineering , manufacturing engineering , engineering , operating system , software , mechanical engineering , paleontology , software construction , software system , biology
Manual testing was taking 38 man weeks for every release on every platform. With more hardware platforms coming onto the market and increasing commercial pressure to ship more products sooner, the ability to survive by manual testing alone came into question. Effort was expended on automating integration testing as a trial. The results were good but not as spectacular as had been hoped for. Nonetheless, automated system test was investigated whilst retaining the same test coverage achieved by manual testing. Many changes were made, and many problems encountered with the non‐technical problems having an unexpectedly large impact – some of them almost destroyed the attempt at automation. Test automation has been successful, although the benefits are only now becoming apparent. More products are being released in less time than had ever been achieved before.