Tricks to Master Regression Testing in 2022

A super beneficial method to test your application

Harsha Vardhan
Better Programming
Published in
4 min readJan 26, 2022

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Each and every software update we receive is backed up by thorough testing and other efforts on the part of the developer. Everything should be subjected to a significant amount of testing and should pass all of the test cases that have been created by the organization. In addition, to ensure that there are no flaws or errors that may develop after applying the software upgrades, regression testing should be performed to evaluate the functionality of the new software program.

As a result, regression testing is extremely important since new updates might break the functionality of an application, for example, by causing the application to crash or act incorrectly. Organizations typically have a large number of distinct test cases on which an application is reviewed after a new patch has been applied in order to ensure that new updates do not compromise the functionality of the software during the evaluation process.

Mastering Regression Testing

Automated Regression Testing

Manual regression testing can become time-consuming and inconvenient at times. There are also other constraints for performing manual regression testing, such as the demand of different platforms, which causes numerous challenges while testing on the various platforms, as well as the fact that it is time-consuming to test on multiple platforms.

For automated regression testing, there are a large number of devices available for testing on different platforms, allowing us to test the code on a variety of platforms or devices at the same time and pinpoint errors more easily. Additionally, because these tests are automatic, there is no need to run them manually. They can also be executed automatically.

So, testers only need to review the report. They can use their time to focus on removing the errors they find. These reports contain a great deal of specific information that can be utilized to quickly determine the root cause of the problem in…

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