Today, the perception of automation is changing. What seemed like will stay forever (code) is not transitioning to codeless. Automation testing and automated bug management tools are a great option for those who need to speed up the testing phase and mitigate mundane manual testing activities. With that said, it still isn’t easy to automate large test suites due to the time and effort the task demands.
Since some traditional testing tools require codes and programs to automate a test scenario, automation becomes a time-consuming and technically challenging process. With the help of new generation testing tools, this notion is changing thanks to the claim that they are scriptless.
Why Codeless Automation?
For many obvious reasons and a few not-so-obvious ones, testers have begun to solely rely on codeless test automation. When code is kept out of test automation:
- It takes less time, and limited or no coding exposure when automating a test scenario.
- Testers can interface with a user-friendly GUI to get test scripts.
- Inputs and analysis can be provided by business analysts and domain experts on the test script.
- Increased test coverage and better testing because the team doesn't spend effort in automation.
- Maintainability and making changes is formed easier with
bug management tools.
- Complex test scripts can be created and managed with ease.
How Does Codeless Test Automation Work?
The tester does not have to type in lines of code to automate a test suit. Pick a couple of boxes, mark the loops, make a flow and reserve it. You can simply record web test automation on step after step basis. Play it back once you need it, and run the test suit. With just functional knowledge, a tester can generate a test script.
What goes unsaid is that beneath all this there's coding too. The script-less automation testing tool makes the work of testers easier by giving them a user-friendly interface to interact with. Script-less testing tool in most cases just adds another layer of abstraction to cover the code from testers’ eyes.
Is it Really Codeless?
This is quite controversial topic to have a precise opinion on. Most automated testing tools that claim to get script-less test scripts still believe basic pieces of programs to check a scenario. But to make this test script, or to switch it, one doesn't have to do hard-core coding.
Testers don't need to have extensive training during a specific language to successfully automate a test suit or make changes to a recorded test script. Learning a tool to automate the test suit would suffice. Most automation testing tools accompany a user manual or end-use guide to assist one study the tool. Such tools have managed to vary the perception from code-based to code-less.
Will Code Cease to Exist?
Is it even possible that ultimately code will not be a neighbourhood of the testing phase? When the new age script-less tools are used, testers cannot see, create or modify the bits of code that make a test suit run. And down the lane, it's quite possible that coding will completely be eliminated and get replaced with some advanced technology where instructions are often fed into the system during a completely code-less package. But for now, coding remains around.
