Why Automation???

"30k test cases and the time limit to test is just in an excess of a week's time"
Is it possible???
May be or may not..... no word to the client... a tentative "Yes"... we will try to do it.... but...
Ifs and buts galore... and rightly so... effort is huge and resources at disposal the least.... and we end up loosing Client's confidence....

Well its just one of the simple example to depict "Test Automation" is here to stay... it is now a very integral part of our Software Testing Life Cycle and its a parallel Software Development Effort in the hugely process driven Software Testing Life Cycle.

Reasons galore and I think I need not explain much to my readers as to why we go back again to some kind of development process while Testing a Developed Software/Application.

So lets get started with the process of Test Automation by digging in deep into the tools that we have at our disposal or let's do a research on the development acumen we have within ourselves to automate a manual process.

Having said that, I would like to stress on the fact that "Software Testing" can never be all Automation dependent... Automation is an extension to Software Testing process in a Technical way... It can never replace a human effort in this stream.... So I welcome anyone who is interested to improve the process to my postings...which may help you in many ways.