Saturday, February 18, 2017

Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Automation Programming Services

By Carol McDonald


The PSA or the professional service automation is a type of software which is designed for assisting the professionals including auditors, IT consultants, and lawyers with resource management and with project management for the projects of clients. This can be accomplished through developing some metrics for quantifying and qualifying the processes of basic businesses and for these processes to be improved.

Typically, the PSA has the functions of documentation, billing, labor utilization, project management, time recording, and reporting. Usually these features being offered by automation programming services Vancouver are being integrated with CRM or customer relationship management systems, payroll systems, and accounting. These can help in improving the efficiency in overall operations.

And as a result, there will be a better management on client projects and on independent contractors, and thus, slow billing cycles and lost revenue can be prevented. Through this software, the users are allowed to integrate industry metrics to have a better understanding on the operations and for the improvement of profitability and efficiency. Along with the continuous business growth is the increase of project size and complexity.

Before the release of one particular software, tests must be performed to ensure programs are running smoothly and to avoid future problems and issues when using the system. One very co common testing type is the automated testing. It helps in automating manual tests that are mostly utilized by organizations and by companies.

This process uses some tools, artifacts, and strategies that would augment or reduce on having the involvement of humans or manual processes. It is because these processes are often involved or interacted with repetitive, redundant, or unskilled tasks. Minimally, there are 2 processes that are involved here such as the detailed test cases and the standalone test environment.

Detailed cases include the expected and the predictable results which are developed from design documentation and from functional specifications in businesses. While a standalone environment include a test database that is restorable to known constant. Just like the test cases, it can also be repeating during the modification of application.

Automated testing can provide so much of benefits. These would include reliable, repeatable, comprehensive, reusable, better quality software, fast, and cost reduction. However, these benefits may only be achieved with the use of right tools when doing the job and if right areas of an organization will be targeted for deployment.

During the testing processes, the testers will need to follow some important guidelines. These important guidelines are being concise, self checking, repeatable, robust, sufficient, necessary, clear, efficient, specific, independent, maintainable, and traceable. By following all these guidelines, achieving the benefits can surely be made possible.

However, there may also be some disadvantages that an automation testing may bring. One is the proficiency when writing the test scripts. There is this one major problem that often occurs at first and that is debugging test scripts. So because of this, there is a great, possibility of having minor or major errors on scripts, and thus, may possibly result to having deadly consequences. The maintenance of tests may also be costly for the playback methods. Replacing the scripts could be possible, especially for possible minor changes to occur. Lastly, it can be difficult for data files to be maintained.




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