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Benefits of Functional Test Automation

Functional testing provides validation of the functional processes of your Siebel application. Without test automation, this can be accomplished by having users log on and manually perform the tasks in a business process. Although this can be effective, it can become quite costly.

By using a test automation tool, you can prepare a test script that exercises the functionality of a particular module or performs the tasks in a comprehensive business process. Then you can share and use this script repeatedly. This approach leads to better application configurations and increased user acceptance, because it allows you to perform additional software testing with little additional cost. Test automation eliminates the need for multiple human test passes, and reduces the risk of human errors in the testing process.