"Our test suite passed," the developer announced. The business analyst looked at the console output - pages of cryptic assertions, stack traces, and technical jargon. "Great," she replied. "But what did it actually test?" The developer scrolled through the logs, searching for something human-readable. Nothing.
CenterTest provides numerous means for effortless Guidewire application testing, such as simplified test creation, requiring only basic Java knowledge.
Guidewire projects follow an Agile methodology iteratively releasing new lines of business one after the other or adding more capabilities to already existing products. This approach creates the need for better quality and faster time to market to overtake the competition.
A transition from manual testing to automated testing is a project on its own. Hiring resources with new skillsets, introducing or developing new tools, requests for additional infrastructure and environments, is a guarantee. All this translates to a bigger upfront investment in comparison to manual testing. Without fixed expenses nor clear predictable gains at the start of a transition, calculating the ROI of such endeavor is not a simple task. Here we will point to several less obvious aspects which need to be taken into consideration when estimating the ROI. What to balance all the costs with?
Every test automation needs investment to start with. With every new test, the overall execution time increases. Why write so many new tests if you do not have time to run them? What is the point of using Data-Driven Testing to multiply those numbers even more if you are already out of time? The most common solution is to add more manual testers, however, this means an increase in cost for testing. Is there a way to avoid that?
Guidewire test automation,
