UIAutomation is an efficient way to help test our platform or app,but still it has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages:
- First of all,running automation script instead of doing test manually saves a lot of time.
- Then,automation can simulate all kinds of operations of a user,or do a check at a specific point.
- Some tests,such as stability test,may need to be done again and again.In this case,automation is just needed.
- Besides,some tests may need to be done very accurately which is surely suitable for automation.
Disadvantages:
- If we do the test manually,when we finish the test according to the test plan,we can do some further tests to explore more,while automation just do the part as scheduled.
- We may focus on how well or efficiently the automation script works,but let's not forget it really takes so much time to write the script.
- What's worse,when some changes are made to our tested platform or app,we need to modify our automation script too,which takes time and energy,and maintenance takes time too.
- In some special cases,the expected results are not suitable for automation test,such as audio and video performance.
