Why automate functional testing?
Now, IT departments under increasing pressure. Management hopes that IT departments can deliver new functionality through software, to seize new business opportunities and provide competitive advantage. This implies the need to do more business applications development projects, and time will be very tight and budget or resources are limited. At the same time Web Services, online transaction processing and ERP applications are not only critical, but, they are directly related to the company’s production capacity. Now companies are very dependent on very complex computer infrastructure. Figure, a typical business may depend on multiple applications running on different systems, using several different front-end client, involving a large number of business processes and interact with a very wide range of data sets. Possible combinations are highly complex, requiring hundreds of thousands of test scenarios. Components Amount Software/Hardware Platform 1 Intel OS 5 Windows XP, ME, 2000, NT
