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We all must have needed loan to fulfil our long awaiting dreams at some point in life. Can you remember when was the first and last time you opted for a loan? How much time did it take to get your loans approved? 

I am sure you would notice the difference if your first loan was about a decade or two ago and the last one is in about a year or so. The time between loan appraisal, approval and disbursement is significantly reduced to 30 minutes of paperless loan approval. The loan approval process now involves digital documents, profiling via multiple data sources and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms making the process extremely quick.

Why organizations are opting for cloud-based testing? One of the key criteria for the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is to reduce the duration of the release cycle. If you need to stay ahead of competitions, it is extremely crucial to reduce the time-to-market.

Cloud-based testing enables you to conduct end-to-end testing including, functional, performance, and security testing so that the software is released faster in the market without compromising the scalability and agility of the product. It saves the time and cost required for software testing.

What are your product development goals? There can be no doubts that primarily organizations want to focus on high ROI. But before you focus on high ROI, you must consider your priorities. You cannot automate everything, and hence, it is essential to define the scope of automation testing first.

Defining the scope of automation testing is not the only one, but definitely an important strategy. The scope further includes automating the most repetitive, mundane, and time-consuming test activities.

Software testing includes checking and validating all the components and elements of applications. However, it not just confined to that, the testing phase also includes all possible test case scenarios to extract accurate information and design the test cases considering the requirements. There can be a severe impact on the overall test process based on the type of data we select for test cases.

Test data is test automation is of great importance as it serves as the input, which is mandatory to test the application, helps in verifying the accuracy of the data output and different scenarios in testing and more.

The growing digital innovation has a powerful impact on our lives. We can barely think of mundane tasks in our life without digital applications. But to bring these apps closer to the end-users is not an easy task. Just in between the product development and launch in the market lies the crucial testing phase.

The development and testing team tests application at multiple levels to ensure that the application or software functionalities remain the same or are easily adaptable to each type of environment whether it is a web-based or mobile-based application. This testing process is known as Cross Browser Testing, which verifies the application compatibility across multiple web browsers.

With rapid changes, the diversity of digital platforms and the growth of third-party service providers, banks cannot help but invest in ensuring that their applications are of high quality and feature enriched. This would require investing early in process and infrastructure to allow frequent and fast validation of the digital platforms.

The right test automation suite can help banks mitigate challenges like validating complex applications, handle transactional loads, managing test data, launching a product on time and obtaining accurate reports with greater visibility.

Data management is the science of creating and maintaining the data sets generated by software system testing, driven by cause-effect relationships, producing predictable outcomes and responses.

Banking solutions are dynamic in nature and there is a constant need to ensure optimized and efficient process continuity, any process that does not facilitate this expediency will have a negative impact on the entire system.

Test data management requires different types of data for different types of testing, from performance through to user acceptance testing, so data needs to be organized correctly to fit within the required time and budgetary constraints.

It is important to have the right automation testing tools to validate the software quality. Choosing the exact tool makes automated testing an easy and fast process for programmers. But selecting the right automation testing tools is not enough; a programmatic bank software test automation project may fail for many other reasons.

However, it is also crucial to have a clear understanding of the challenges, opportunities, expectations and concepts to optimize the benefits of test automation and help your business grow.

Automation testing is important for continuous delivery, which is followed by continuous deployment. Hence, it gives rise to the need for continuous testing to keep track of changes.

In the deployment pipeline, the changes are implemented simultaneously with continuous integration during product release. If the common defects are not highlighted in the deployment pipeline, it could delay product release.

Learn more on how important it is to execute continuous testing in CD/CI deployment pipeline.