Test Automation Buzzwords — Part -2
Buzzwords are industry-specific, potent terminologies that are essential in today’s modern world, as they summarize and simply complex industrial practices in a single word or phrase. Buzzwords are important for sales and marketing teams to reach out to potential customers and explain the services in the easiest way possible. As the test automation industry is evolving as a separate industry, the sector has also given rise to buzzwords that are specific to it. You can check out part-1 of the test automation series on Medium, I decided to include the remaining buzzwords as part-2 for the immense response received on the previous post.
Buzzwords have a huge impact on businesses; it essentially streamlines the communication process and makes things clear, otherwise, the assumption among the customers/users may be consequential. It standardizes the process and ensures the organization, employees, potential clients, prospective clients, stakeholders, and general audience, all are on the same page and have the same understanding of a particular process/technique/methodology. Let us have a look at the other popular buzzwords in the test automation sector that were not covered in the previous article.
Popular buzzwords in test automation
This is going to be interesting! Buzzwords as the name suggests are the words that are creating a huge buzz on social media and other digital space. I bet you would have come across these words if you follow software testing content regularly, here’s the mention of few testing buzzwords with a brief.
TaaS: TaaS, the abbreviation of Testing as a Service, is an outsourcing testing model. In this approach, testing services of an organization are outsourced rather than in-house testing. Outsourcing testing models are getting popular as companies can hand over the critical testing activities to experts in the industry and allow them to take care of it.
TaaS is a suitable model for startups who do not have enough resources or manpower and operating on strict budgets, helping them get quality work done at nominal price range.
Scriptless: Scriptless also popularly known as codeless or no-code, is a testing practice that eliminates the step of writing test scripts or codes. The scriptless testing is an automated approach that will reduce the occurrence of human errors and saves time, cost, and effort.
Scriptless test automation is considered to a great solution for the flexibility, ease, and effectiveness it offers.
Agile: Agile is a repetitive approach that makes the whole software development and project management a lot easier. Talking about agile testing, it is an approach in which testing is introduced earlier in the development lifecycle alongside the development process. When testing is performed simultaneous to development, it identifies the bugs in each sprint before moving on to the next sprint. By incorporating this method, the software will emerge as bug-free and ready for deployment on the completion of the development process.
Sanity Testing: Sanity testing is a part of regression testing that will ensure that the code changes introduced across the system is working as expected without causing any glitch. Such revisits are essential to check if any new additions across the system is in alignment and do not cause any deviation from the expected results.
UI testing: UI or user interface is the first point of contact of the users to the application. It forms the first interaction between users and the software; hence, it should be able to create a great impression. UI testing verifies that all the UI components are working as expected and there is no deviation from the expected outcome.
Functional testing: Functional testing is performed to check if all the functional parameters are working as expected. The functional parameters testing includes — if the integrations are seamless and working fine, the regressions are performed without any glitch, login is happening with the correct credentials, payment gateways are working correctly, confirmation messages are sent whenever necessary, unit testing is performed to check if the required parameter passes, and check if all the other functional aspects are performing as expected.
Non-functional testing: Non-functional testing involves the non-testing parameters such as reliability, scalability, stability, load testing, performance, and security. It is important to perform non-functional testing to improve efficiency, usability, and ROI.
Performance testing: Performance testing is conducted to check the software’s responsiveness, the load it can withstand, scalability, and speed.
As people have no tolerance for poorly performing software with slow speed, responsiveness, and constant crashes, performance testing becomes one of the primary parameters to ensure a seamless user experience.
Acceptance testing: Acceptance testing determines if the system satisfies the acceptance criteria to allow users to access the system. Without this, the users may not be able to use the system properly and the whole time, effort, and cost that went in creating the software will go in vain.
Security testing: Security testing is a non-functional testing parameter that identifies the vulnerabilities in the system and secures the system from hackers or any third-party malicious parties.
Hope you liked this series! Comment and let me know if I have missed out any buzzwords.
