Automated testing involves utilizing software tools to execute predefined tests on applications, validating their expected behavior, and ensuring that new code does
not introduce defects or regressions. This approach is applicable across various testing types, including unit, integration, API, performance, and user interface (UI) testing.
Benefits of Automation testing
- Early Detection of Bugs: API testing facilitates the identification of issues early in the development process, preventing them from escalating into more significant problems. This proactive strategy ensures that the core functionality of the application is solid before the UI layers are developed.
- Improved Test Coverage: By employing API testing, a wide range of scenarios and functionalities can be addressed, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
This enables examining various edge cases, input combinations, and workflows. - Time and Cost Efficiency: Automated API tests can be executed quickly and repeatedly, resulting in significant time savings and reduced long-term testing costs. This automation minimizes human effort, allowing team members to concentrate on more complex tasks.
- Integration Testing: API testing validates interactions
between application components, ensuring seamless integration and maintaining a stable system. - Enhanced Reliability: Comprehensive API testing enhances the reliability and stability of applications, ultimately leading to an improved user experience. Reliable APIs are crucial for the success of software applications.
Leveraging Automation for DATASCOPE WMS
Integration into CI/CD Pipelines
Our automated tests are seamlessly integrated into the Azure DevOps pipeline. By leveraging environment properties, we ensure that our tests remain dynamic and adaptable to various environments, effectively supporting continuous integration and deployment processes.

Current Automation Coverage
- Backend API Testing: API coverage currently stands at 65%, with over 1000 tests executed daily to validate core business logic and interactions within the application.
- Baseline UI Testing: UI test coverage is at 45%, featuring 83 baseline tests focusing on essential workflows and user interfaces to ensure compliance with usability and accessibility standards.


Importance of Performance Testing
Performance testing is vital for understanding how an application behaves under load conditions, ensuring it remains responsive and reliable during the process. It also allows us to set baselines that we can use to evaluate client environments and their respective performance compared to others.
Future Plans: Incorporating Performance Testing
Looking ahead, we plan to integrate Performance Testing into our automation strategy.
The mid-year development roadmap feedback is crucial for assessing progress and aligning future efforts across various development categories, including Baseline developments, Enhancements, Strategic Developments, and Business Objects. This review not only focuses on achievements but also addresses challenges, such as software bugs, encountered and resolved in the first two quarters.