[Me]: - I am currently running automation in my project. What can we do to measure the effectiveness of automation?
[Guruji]: - It is no doubt that the role of test automation has become more and more important in keeping the quality of any product at the top level. We have seen companies invest a lot in test automation and seen the result where we can automatically kick off a bunch of test cases with minimum user intervention. All of these achievements are great, but we still need a way to
Measure the successfulness of our automation
[Me]: Guruji, I think if we fulfill - Reliability(Successful test automation needs to deliver consistent and reliable results every time test automation is being run), Effectiveness & performance(how long it will take for the test automation to run) of the automation, we can add them as accountable to the successfulness, isn't it?
[Guruji]: - Yes, but you would need to collect a few metrics which will spell out these factors
How many times the automated test case has been run?
[Me]: - Sounds Cool, So all we need is some kind of index to capture this?
[Guruji]: Yes, and we can call that Automation health Index. For your ease , i have created such an index. You can share it with others.
Vinay Jagtap
A hard core Technocrat with over a decade of extensive experience in heading complex test projects coupled with real time experience of project management and thought leadership. Extensive experience in Performance, Security and Automation Testing and development of automation frameworks and ability to setup and execute Global service centers and Center of Excellences for testing.
