What exactly is RPA (Robotic Process Automation)? How does it differ from Test Automation? And can the two be used together?

Implement effective, best practice test automation, avoiding common and expensive mistakes with our experienced automation consultancy and software testing services.
Ten10’s innovative QA test automation strategies, frameworks, methodology and software test automation services balance highly technical expertise with exceptional process experience to maximise value and meet demanding business requirements across areas such as functional, accessibility and integration testing.
An effective quality assurance automated testing strategy is essential to provide the confidence to release quality software faster, more effectively and more frequently, gaining a competitive advantage.
Our exceptional consultants will ensure the test automation will deliver a return on investment whether you are looking to introduce continuous test automation as part of a wider Agile or Continuous Integration processes or to replace costly and error-prone manual regression testing across web services, automated testing of mobile applications or database projects.
Ten10’s solutions include:
Ten10’s Quality and Test Health Check provides a proven, industry-leading and accelerated way to improve your quality and test processes.
Our full lifecycle, proactive Quality Engineering approach means we assess your end-to-end delivery, solution and technology landscape in order to recommend pragmatic and prioritised improvements to quality and testing processes.
Ten10’s Test and Quality Leadership solutions are designed to help our clients by providing proven processes, templates and tools to enable current and future software change with confidence.
Our expert Test and Quality Consultants will define a quality and test strategy for your organisation, programme or project.
Supported by Ten10’s Test and Quality Healthcheck, we will deliver an improvement roadmap either as a dedicated activity, or alongside, a pilot programme or project. Our Consultants are able to prioritise ‘quick wins’ and explain the benefits of change to stakeholders at all levels of your organisation ensuring that through evolution and incremental, measurable marginal gains, the return on investment is realised while allowing for course correction if/when your priorities change.
Ten10 is able to provide Head of Test, Programme Test Manager, Test Manager and Test Lead-level Consultants, across all test disciplines, who are accountable for the implementation of the test strategy and approach, the provision of all test deliverables and test team leadership for programmes, projects and business as usual changes.
The current challenging business climate means investments in technology need to demonstrate efficiencies and drive productivity improvements. Effective test automation is a key element to achieving this. In today’s remote working and value focussed environment, we know that you need you to justify your investment with low risk and a high chance of success. At Ten10, we follow a proven approach that delivers business results directly linked with cost efficiencies:
We examine your test processes, assets, technology, delivery landscape and the capability of your team.
We define a clear view of what is ready to be automated, what automation looks like and the value that can be achieved.
We demonstrate an initial test automation delivery iteration, conducting a proof of concept. We also ensure that targeted tests achieve the most valuable coverage and are appropriate for automation.
We implement a framework and scripts providing robust, repeatable and maintainable automated tests that follow industry best practice.
Ensuring an appropriate, best practice approach to test automation from the outset is essential to longer-term success and achieving the greatest value from it.
Our company’s breadth and depth of experience delivering test automation services ensures that common pitfalls and failures associated with test automation are avoided by:
We have expertise in a wide range of open-source and commercial tools and frameworks. Our tool-agnostic approach means we always look to recommend the most appropriate solution to benefit our clients’ needs:
Whether the technology is web or client-server based, we know that test automation isn’t just about automating the UI, delivering API/service based automation and using tools such as REST-assured, Postman and PACT for microservices.
Our automation services also include the use of advanced techniques to remove dependencies and allow earlier integration testing, implementing bespoke service simulation and stubbing solutions, using tools such as WireMock.
What exactly is RPA (Robotic Process Automation)? How does it differ from Test Automation? And can the two be used together?
The client is a leading financial markets operator and provider of execution and information services and plays a pivotal role in bringing together buyers and sellers in wholesale financial markets, globally. The client had procured and was maintaining and further developing its brokerage platform that would be used internally by the company’s brokers.
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