Perhaps you have looked at how you manually test your application and sorted through all of your tests to select some good candidates for automation. You’ve selected an automated testing tool and have started converting some of your manual tests to scripts. But is the extent of automated testing just to change manual tests into automated ones? Now that you’ve embraced automated testing, what can you do now that you couldn’t do before?
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You’ve probably seen and used regular expressions before, even if you’re not aware of it. When you search for all your digital photos (*.jpg) or list all files starting with the letter “a” (a.*) you are using a pattern language known as regular expressions, or regex. You may also not be aware that you can also use regexes in your QA Wizard Pro scripts to perform tasks, such as validating field data or verifying results, and also to ignore dynamic data in properties used as search criteria.
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One decision you may find yourself having to make when beginning automated testing is selecting which of your tests to automate. Automating all of your tests may sound appealing at first, but is both difficult and impractical. Some tests are better suited for manual testing while some make excellent candidates for automated testing.
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