Saturday, February 18, 2017

The Pros And The Cons Of Testing And Automation Programming Services

By Carol McDonald


The PSA or the professional service automation is a type of software which is designed for assisting the professionals including auditors, IT consultants, and lawyers with resource management and with project management for the projects of clients. This can be accomplished through developing some metrics for quantifying and qualifying the processes of basic businesses and for these processes to be improved.

Typically, the PSA has the functions of documentation, billing, labor utilization, project management, time recording, and reporting. Usually these features being offered by automation programming services Vancouver are being integrated with CRM or customer relationship management systems, payroll systems, and accounting. These can help in improving the efficiency in overall operations.

The most possible result of this is to manage independent contractors and client projects much better, and thus, preventing revenue loss and billing cycles slowness. With the software, the users can also be allowed on integrating the industry metrics for understanding the operations much better which can help in improving both efficiency and profitability. For the continuous growth of businesses, project complexity and size are increased as well.

Before a software will be released performing some tests would be very important in order to prevent some further problems once the system has been used already. The most common type of testing that is being used is the automated testing. It automates the manual tests which are often used in most companies or organizations.

The process has been used with some tools, strategies, and artifacts which will reduce or will augment the human involvement or the manual processes. Traditional processes usually are considered to have involved some repetitive, unskilled, and redundant tasks. There are two minimal processes involved here, namely detailed test cases and standalone environment.

Detailed cases include the expected and the predictable results which are developed from design documentation and from functional specifications in businesses. While a standalone environment include a test database that is restorable to known constant. Just like the test cases, it can also be repeating during the modification of application.

Automated testing can provide so much of benefits. These would include reliable, repeatable, comprehensive, reusable, better quality software, fast, and cost reduction. However, these benefits may only be achieved with the use of right tools when doing the job and if right areas of an organization will be targeted for deployment.

During the testing processes, the testers will need to follow some important guidelines. These important guidelines are being concise, self checking, repeatable, robust, sufficient, necessary, clear, efficient, specific, independent, maintainable, and traceable. By following all these guidelines, achieving the benefits can surely be made possible.

However, this may possibly bring some disadvantages as well. One is proficiency in writing test scripts. To debug the test script is the number one major issue at first, and whenever the scripts have some errors, deadly consequences are for sure, the results. This is a costly test maintenance for playback methods. Replacement of scripts is needed even for minor changes that may occur. And lastly, to maintain data files may be difficult.




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