What Is Codeless Automation Testing And Why It Is The Future?

Testing has always been a bane of the product development cycle. In an era where a single software bug can cause massive financial losses, quality assurance testing is paramount for any software product no matter how small or how big.

In the current agile development cycle where development and release cycle involves releasing a set of features and extending those sets in iterated releases, testing has become even more complicated. Manual testing, though very useful in many cases, fails under the deluge of features, buttons, links, accordions, javascript, and integrations. Add performance testing, and user experience testing to the equation and you get no choice but to automate the testing process. And that’s where codeless testing comes into place and the subject of this post.

Automation Testing and Codeless Testing

Automation testing becomes critical once you get to a stage where every release requires the execution of thousands of test cases and actions. For large projects or projects having a fast release cycle, creating a test environment, and writing test scripts itself take a huge amount of time and resources. This ultimately defeats the whole purpose of automation testing which was aimed at reducing testing times and testing resources.

A solution to this problem is codeless testing. Codeless testing is creating automation tests without writing a single piece of code. This approach has been steadily evolving with new innovation on technology, focusing more on reducing the coding process and making it more user-friendly.

To discover the true potential of codeless testing, you can leverage AI-driven test assistant like KaneAI by LambdaTest!

KaneAI is an AI test assistant that enables teams to create, debug, and refine tests using natural language. Designed from the ground up for high quality engineering teams, it integrates smoothly with LambdaTest’s full suite of tools for test execution, orchestration, and analysis. This innovative AI test assistant simplifies test automation by allowing you to create, manage, and debug test cases using natural language—no coding required.

How Codeless Testing Works

There are multiple approaches to codeless testing. The two most prominent ones involving recording manual tests and playing it back, and creating structured test flow diagrams that are used to run tests. The record and play approach is the most popular one right now and especially favored by web-based products.

The idea behind the approach is that a tester manually performs a test, which the tool records click by click. The tool then creates scripts to automate the test itself. The testers can also edit the scripts, and the testing process to best suit their requirements.

The Future of Codeless Automation; Will It Kill Automation Testing?

For the foreseeable future, the need for automation coders would not diminish. Codeless testing would be a tool for automation testers to fast track their jobs rather than replace their jobs. In the unforeseen future, the tools will become smart enough that they will completely eliminate the need for test script coding, allowing testing instructions to be directly passed on to the system in a complete codeless package. Right now though, automation functional testing is the most important requirement of any agile software development process.

Saif Sadiq

Saif Sadiq is a Product Growth specialist at LambdaTest and Growth Marketer.

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