Automation interview questions

 Interview Questions for Automation Testing

1.Which combination of automation tools and Application under test will form wrong combination? 

Selenium - Desktop Application. 

Note: One can use WinAppDriver to automate windows application. It is based on webdriver of selenium.

2. Example of automation tool

• Selenium , Cypress - Web Automation

• Test Complete and QTP- Desktop,Web and Mobile.

• Appium - Mobile.

• RestAPI, Postman - API automation.

3.Which Test Cases to Automate?

Test cases to be automated can be selected using the following criterion to increase the automation ROI

• High Risk - Business Critical test cases
• Test cases that are repeatedly executed
• Test Cases that are very tedious or difficult to perform manually
• Test Cases which are time-consuming

The following category of test cases are not suitable for automation:

• Test Cases that are newly designed and not executed manually at least once
• Test Cases for which the requirements are frequently changing
• Test cases which are executed on an ad-hoc basis.

4. How to define the scope of Automation.

The scope of automation is the area of your Application Under Test which will be automated. Following points help determine scope:

• The features that are important for the business
• Scenarios which have a large amount of data
• Common functionalities across applications
• Technical feasibility
• The extent to which business components are reused
• The complexity of test cases
• Ability to use the same test cases for cross-browser testing

5. What are the major challenges you face in Automation? 

• Identifying right tool for the project.

• Maintaining the test data for automation.

• Training the engineers on automation tool.

• Licenses. If using paid tools for automation.