6 Key Benefits Of Automation Testing

By Ray Parker

According to a report by MarketsandMarkets, an estimated 110.12 Billion USD is expected to be spent on the Wireless Health Market by 2020. With soaring demand for interoperability, regulatory compliance, and of course, the end-user technology (various devices and a wide range of OS) compliance, QA testing of healthcare applications at the moment involves extensive technology proficiency, substantial time and resources, as well as the cost factor.

However, there are several questions relating to digitization in healthcare, which revolve around the benefits of digital networks for CIOs, need for advanced analytics, the investments essential for the digital shift, and anticipated performance of the applications. Quality Assurance and Testing is largely empowering enterprises to address these questions and consequently, implement enhanced digital strategies.

Seeing the growing number of healthcare products and their growing impact on the industry, it is essential to ensure the accuracy and precision of these products. That is possible only with vigorous testing and robust quality assurance strategies.

Healthcare applications process a massive number of transactions and patient data every passing day. In order to certify that this data is taken well care of, it is fundamental to test these applications with data sets of variable complexity. For that purpose, as well as for saving time and resources, automation testing should be executed where possible.

Here are 6 key benefits of how automating testing can help in ensuring precision and quality in healthcare applications:

1. Data-Driven Tests:

Healthcare applications handle massive amounts of data that include patient details, such as names, phone numbers, DOB, medical record history etc. Since manual testing is time-consuming to validate every bit of data, data-driven automation frameworks help create test data that can easily be used in multiple test executions.

2. Authorization and Authentication Validation:

It’s obvious that the most important thing in this entire field is the security of patient data. Through test automation, different test cases that feature valid and invalid test data can certify that the application's user authentication features are fully functional.

3. Repetitive Test Execution:

Since these healthcare applications are used on daily basis, that means that the expected result should generate the same every day. Automation testing facilitates QA engineers to re-run test cases as many times as needed for verifying the application's functionality precision for different processes. 

4. Verification of Audit Trails and reports:

Audit helps tracks any unwarranted activity, for example, unauthorized login attempts or unofficial records requests, that occurs in the application. Since audit trails encompass large volumes of data, an automated script assist engineers to test for appropriate recording and identify suspicious activity. Also, these healthcare apps produce reports in different formats (HTML, PDF, text, etc.). With test automation, these reports are auto-tested and verified across these formats for helping you quickly identify and resolve the issues.

5. Multi-Platform Verification and Faster Regression Cycles:

Automation testing enables testing of applications against a variety of platforms and browsers. Manual testing can take longer and can take even longer especially with the number of features in the app keep adding up. Automated test cases facilitate engineers to test existing features together with the newly added ones at a much, much faster pace, revealing any bugs or defects earlier in the SDLC.

6. Availability of resource and Cost Savings:

With test automation in place, auto-running your tests and authenticating the app features, it frees up your resources to focus on other important tasks and hence saves you a good amount of money. Putting it simply, the less time spent on manual testing and verification of the application, the less your total testing cost is.

Conclusion

Security of patient data, secure app interfaces, fast turnaround time, interoperability of devices, and uncompromised performance are some key areas in the healthcare sector that need to be 100% in flow. Quality Assurance and Testing can ensure that healthcare organizations are able to deliver anticipated solutions to their patients and consumers.

Author Bio:

Ray Parker is an entrepreneur and internet marketer with over 9 years of experience in Search Engine Optimization, Creative Writer and Digital Marketing.