Expectations from Automation Testing

Hi All,

This article about the expectations of Individuals/Teams/Company from Automation department. Expectations, of course, are to automate all regression test cases which are panic or monotonus for Manual team. But there are more than this which I will be explaining as per the things I have observed :

1. 100% Automation : This is the most common expectation and desire that every team has. But, it is really difficult to achieve considering various factors i.e. frequent requirements change, pending test cases updation, test data missing, etc. 100% Automation can be done for bunch of Test Cases out of Complete Test Suites. If we have 1000 of TCs and we want to cover all of them. Then, it require huge amount of amount and will results in wastage in future considering the above factors.

2. Finding New Defects : Is this possible? Of course, No. Automation is running regression TCs to reduce the repetative acitivity on new build. It will help to find regression defects. But any new type of defect is not possible.