As we are moving towards rapid development cycles and quicker deliveries to market, driven through agile methodology, performing manual testing seems time-consuming, repetitive and prone to human errors.

The requirement to implement automation testing from scratch seems to fit in the business owing to its flexibility of greater coverage to functionalities with lesser time to market and early discovery of issues as compared to manual tests.

I am going to highlight some key notes for you to keep in mind as you plan to start automation testing from scratch.Why We Hesitate While Switching From Manual To Automation Testing?Automation testing is considered a widely used parameter to overcome the manual testing issues and probably trying to rule it out to the max.

The few challenges one would face are:Too Preoccupied With Upcoming Release Activities: We are too busy writing effective manual test cases, devising test strategy due to back to back planned up releases that we forget to plan a time window for developing automation test scripts.The complexity, time and resources: Any new process comes with time and learning new areas and methods.

Taking the right decision at the right time is more important for better quality achievement and ROI.

This helps to save time for teams by analyzing whether the build needs in-depth testing or not post the automation suite results.Data-driven testing: Functionalities that required to be tested with multiple sets of data.Cross-browser testing: This is one of the bigger issues that arise when it comes to supporting application on multiple browsers and versions or if refer to responsive testing for validating the website’s RWD(Responsive Web Design).