What testing activities you may want to automate in a project?

Answer Posted / mrinalini

Below is the list of activies you may want to automate
1)Tests that need to be run for every build of the
application or website(sanity testing)
2)Tests that use multiple data for the same set of actions
(data driven testing)
3)Identical tests that needs to be executed using different
browser
4)Mission critical pages
5)Transaction with pages which do not change in short term

the bottom line is you should automate tests which are of
repeatative nature

Below is the list of activites which are poor candiates for
automation
1)Usabiltiy testing
2)One time testing
3)Adhoc/Random testing based on the knowledge of the
application or website


Lemme know if this helps

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