You are working on a TAS for standalone application. The automated tests are developed based on a automation framework that allows interaction with GUI elements using on object orientated API. The GUI elements include menus, buttons, radio buttons, text toolbars and their properties. Whilst automating a test, you have discovered that the GUI elements of some third party components are not identifiable by the automated tool you are using. Which of the following is the FIRST step that you take to investigate this issue?
Which of the following is considered a disadvantage of test automation?
When if the BEST time for automation to consider legal and/or standard requirements for a SUT?
A TAS uses a commercial test automation tool and the default logs generated by the inconsistent formats such as different types of messages (pass/fail steps, screenshots,warnings, etc.) To solve this issue some custom logging functions have been created from the test scripts, making it possible to log the different types of messages with the same format. However, this may cause a problem due to excessive size of the logs which can make it difficult to find the required information. Assume that all the default logs will be disabled when running the automated tests and that some tests will not generate excessively sized logs. Which of the following represents the BEST suggestion for implementing the custom logging functions?
You have been asked to implement test automation for a project that is not meeting its deadlines. After further analysis you discover that the manual testers are not able to keep up with the new feature testing because the regression testing is taking 75% of their time. As a result, the new features are being released with many defects and customers are complaining about the quality. Given this information, what metric SHOULD you be tracking to show the value of test automation for this project?