The idea of this blog post is to be able to try to help improve our day-to-day by speeding up our times and that each task takes us less time to be able to concentrate on more complex tasks and to be able to give them a better quality of the product. It will also serve us to get out of the routine and tedious tasks of our day-to-day. In this blog, we will address how to speed up times by automating tasks as mentioned above. It is worth noting that in this blog post, we are going to refer to software tasks.
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How to detect tasks to automate
At this point, we will list the tasks that can be automated, obviously to the extent possible.
Next, we will mention how to detect tasks that we can automate:
- Repetitive tasks are a good indication that we should automate as much as possible
- Complex tasks: in the first instance, it will be costly to automate them, but in the future, we will win in terms of time. We must try to make automation reusable and be the least expensive in terms of maintenance, that it is easy to migrate, which is as well documented as possible.
Automation tools
We must look for automation tools with more support in the market since we can receive immediate help if we have any problems.
Automating Tasks
In the first instance, automating our tasks will be very expensive, but we will save time in the future, and we will be able to do other tasks.
Some tasks that can be automated
- Using VPN
- Unit tests
- FE tests
- BE tests
- Lift repetitive services
- Other
Tests
Automation requires a test and rollback stage to polish them until reaching a constant in terms of their behavior.
As far as possible, we must handle logs, reports, etc., to ensure the automation of the tasks is being executed successfully.
Maintenance
As I mentioned in a previous section, the maintenance of the tasks should be as less expensive as possible since if it takes us a long time to maintain them, it makes no sense to automate this task.
Automation example
We are going to provide an example of FE automation of a particular system
- Knowing the form (s) through manual tests, it is necessary to know the business logic of what we are about to automate.
- Select the tool to automate. In the market there are many, but as I mentioned, we will select the one that has the most support or suits our needs.
- Analyze the cases to be automated. Not everything is always automated.
- We are going to automate by parts. In principle, we must plan a test regression as complete as possible. We are going to start with the cases that are repeated the most, such as login, an ABM.
- Once we have the first sequence of automated tests, we will take them to test them in different environments, surely we will have a rollback, and we will polish the tests to different environments. They must work in any environment logically in the same forms that we want to automate. Having a stable base, we are going to start adding new automated cases.
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