The primary goal of functional testing is to make sure that applications are able to flawlessly perform principal activities. Functional testing along with automation ensures to cut down the glitches in application and usher business sustainability and productivity.
Functional testing is the most critical, time devouring and expensive continuous step in testing. That’s why it is necessary to automate such testing for cost optimization. Functional testing companies are now using functional test automation tools to support the team in designing, developing, managing the automation for functional tests for an application, even if it is running across multiple platforms simultaneously. Automation at each level of testing and software development life-cycle is important, because in this digital world, enterprises need to have a turnaround in the market.
Value Proposition of Functional Testing For Software Development
Every software testing feature is expected to provide value addition to the entire software development process, to reengineer the processes, deliver better quality software products in limited time.
Some of the value added benefits functional testing is expected to achieve are as;
- Disclosing functionality flaws
Spotting and unveiling the functional flaws is important to make sure the application is working efficiently. It’s no doubt essential to create and maintain a list of basic deliverables of an application, for the tester to understand the real life usage of an application while detecting bugs in the application.
With the rapid increase in cyber threats, security is the primary aspect that must be considered while executing tests.
- Accuracy of the application
With the help of functional testing, teams are able to test the application’s precision in performance. If an application has a feature of double click, then it must be a double click, by heart and hard. This doesn’t mean that a single click can also work.
- Ensuring Interconnectivity
An application interacts with multiple other applications and gateways for seamless transactions. For example; A mobile wallet app is now-a-days, used for multiple purposes such as payments, transfers, billing, booking a taxi, booking tickets for cinema and much more. Ever wondered if it is unable to connect and make payments? It will be a total destruction.
- Operations across Multiple Platforms
The best application is one which can be easily operated across multiple platforms or devices like tablets, smartphones or over the web and can be accessed across browsers and operating systems. What if your application does not allow interoperability? For this purpose, automation testing is the best possible way to test a single application across devices.
Final Thoughts
If you ask about the feedback of users on what type of application they would love to experience? Their answer would be like, secured, easy to operate across multiple devices, flawless and smooth. Thus, functional testing along with automation is playing the key role to ensure the basic deliverables of an application. Organizations need to be more aware of the competition and must ask their Q/A Teams to focus more on their functional testing strategy for making the software development processes more effective and efficient.
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