Automated Testing: The digital quality assurance for your web application

Test Automation

During the development of a Web site or application, the life of a tester usually looks like this:

1. You set up a series of test scenarios;
2. You go through them manually, ensuring quality;
3. However, your fellow developers are constantly implementing new code 🤯;
4. That means these test scenarios have to be repeated;
5. With dozens of code changes per day soon an impossible task.... Thanks Developers!

Fortunately, automated testing offers a solution here: manual testing procedures are translated into code. With every implementation of new code, these tests are run automatically. This ensures that errors* are quickly noticed and a tester's life becomes a lot more fun.

*Developers at Laméco, of course, never make those....

Automatic testing of your website or application

Even with your website, you want to make sure that everything works smoothly, especially if your application has a complex API link to exchange data. This is where automated testing comes in. Instead of manual testing, where testers manually check each element of the application, automated testing allows you to create scripts that automate this process.

Web applications that communicate with other systems via APIs can be quite complicated. Automatic testing offers some important advantages:

Efficiency: In the real world, you would have to repeat the time-consuming process of manually checking every time there is an update. With automatic testing, this can be done automatically, without human intervention.

Reliability: Manual testing is prone to human error. Automatic testing gives consistent and reliable results, time after time.

Time savings: If your application needs to be tested several times a day, manual testing is just not feasible. Automatic testing can significantly reduce the time it takes to run tests.

Faster Feedback: Automatic tests provide immediate feedback on every change in the code. This means that problems are detected and fixed quickly, reducing development time.

Test Automation and Content Management Systems

A customer calling to see if you will get back to their inquiry sent via a form on the website, $@#!&, isn't that form working?

In our opinion, test automation is essential in ensuring the functionality of, for example, customizable forms in your CMS (for example, in Craft). Manually checking that every possible scenario works, especially when the forms are easily customizable, is time-consuming and tedious.

With automated testing, we can ensure that every change you make to the form is immediately checked for functionality. This prevents a non-working form from accidentally going live, hurting the user experience -andyour reputation with your colleagues. In this, automated testing provides a reliable method that continuously ensures that even the most complex forms function flawlessly.