What is Test Automation?

Software Testing has always been an essential part of the software industry. With crunch in timelines and increasing scope of testing, Automation can play a key role for getting the Testing phase complete within the stipulated time. Test automation is the process of reducing and whenever possible removing human interactions from an existing manual testing process. There are different tools available in the market o achieve test Automation of the Application under Test (AUT). With variety of environments available in the market to develop an application, it gets difficult to get one tool which can cater to all the needs of the Applications. Quick test Pro (QTP) does support a lot of environment through the use of Add-ins specified to the environment.

Contributed by: Vamsi Gowtham
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