Ans: To find whether the tool works on existing system or not one should

• Discuss with support officials
• Download trial version of tool and evaluate
• Get suggestions from people who are working
   

Ans: The main skills required for good test automator
Good logic programming
Analytical skills
Pessimistic in nature

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• Testers should have solid knowledge on software development principles which lack most of time of testers. This is because they are not trained by development activities of organization. Thus everyone follow the same standards while writing the script
• Automation testing cannot replace manual testing
• Many people who don’t have knowledge on automation tool try to execute which may lead to time constraint and budge constraint

Ans: The activities of test case design is automated by using scripting fundamentals, like if any other test cases are in excel sheet then whenever any steps in test cases are filed than we can writ proper code to fill column and rows in the excel sheet.

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• Proper guiding standards
• Standard format for designing functions
• Providing comments for each and every step
• Proper exception handling techniques  

Ans: The scripting techniques that are used for automation process includes the following

• Linear
• Structured
• Shared
• Data driven
• Key word driven

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• Cost of automation is high
• Cost of staff training is high
• Shouldn’t expect more productivity in less time
• Shouldn’t keep effort on regression timing
• Shouldn’t totally depend up on automation

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• We should automate repeated testing process and test cases
• When there is less time period then test cases should be automated
• For conducting regression testing we should automate
• We should automate action driven and data driven kind of testing

Ans: The testing activities that should be followed are

• Test plan
• Use cases
• Test cases
• Execution of test cases
• Bug fixing
• Bug validation
• Automation
• Reporting
   

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• Proper selection of tool plays a major role in test automation; if proper tool is not selected then automation goes wrong
• The incomplete test cases to automate, incomplete resources and no proper test plan can effect test automation.