What is our automation test coverage?
- What is our automation test coverage? - 42 - What is “42”? - What is automation test coverage? Asking about test coverage you have to be ready to have such conversation. In general the question about test coverage is very slippery. The person who is asking it has to realize all issues related to testing: Testing can be endless if it is not limited. It can be limited by time frame (Session based exploratory testing) or by cutting the scope (scripted testing). You can cut the scope by limiting the number of features to be tested or by using test design techniques. Due to the fact that we cannot automate exploratory testing the definition of automation test coverage will be treated to the scripted testing and it will show the percentage of automated manual tests. Let’s look at one small example: There is a simple application consists of a couple of pages, forms, linked between each other entities, functions and so on (I'm not talking about infrastructure). To pe...