10 Ways To Increase Automation Test Coverage

To make life a little easier, listed below are 10 tips to increase automation test coverage

- Haritha Hari

A Quality Analyst (QA) like myself would probably have faced one or more of the hurdles that I have articulated below:

1. Long running projects with extreme delivery pressures, multiple services and huge data involvements

2. An application’s code whose initial functionalities have been developed by the client and have less test coverage than you are accustomed to

3. Legacy applications that are not unit testable and applications whose entire logic lies in database queries

To make life a little easier, listed below are 10 tips to increase automation test coverage. These ideas are easy to incorporate, will improve test automation coverage and will reduce manual testing effort. They should also enhance the efficiency of a continuous delivery practice.

1. Introduce a new ‘To Be Automated’ lane, after ‘In Testing’ on the iteration wall. This will ensure all story cards have automation tests written before they are moved to the ‘Done’ section.