No one will ever give a complete guarantee that software development will be 100% successful. But if you start monitoring projects closely in the month and weeks that will somehow precede the failure of a project, you can find clear signs that could notify the project team about dangerous times coming. Some of them are easy to detect, and some of them are hiding inside the monotonous activity of the team. They are extremely difficult to qualify until it is too late.

If project companies can recognize these signals in advance, they will avoid downtime and monetary costs. Here are a couple of the most common signals that can eloquently indicate that project automation is completely failed!

The Project Team Is Ready to Automate Everything!

Once a company realizes that automated testing services will bring extremely positive results, it gives the green light to the automation department. But attempts to automate everything do not make developers see the disadvantages of this kind of software testing. 

Unfortunately, such things are evident only when the group has spent a lot of precious time and money on the development of a system. Moreover, it brings much more problems than profit.

Total automation can harm testing for many reasons. The most important of these are:

1. No focus on the most basic; trying to do a lot instead of automating exactly what can bring big results;
2. If there is a lot of automation, more time will be spent on running tests and dealing with the problems that keep arising;
3. The more tests, the harder it is to maintain the software code base, which in turn, provides them in the long run.

Companies Want to Get Rid of Manual Testing Completely 

The basic reason why software testing companies want to automate everything is a clear desire to reduce reliance on manual testing. This is caused both by economic factors and by the lack of specialists to manage such automatic teams. Sometimes, it may seem that manual testing is something that supposedly slows down the process of creating and then releasing a web product.

A basic solution for all such companies that want to get rid of manual testing is upgrading education. Product company managers must understand that modern test automation will not be able to perform every process.

Testers Don’t Interact with Other Members of the Project Team

The problem with separating the QA team from other members is that this disconnect instantly destroys communication between everyone involved in the development process. Work in the progress is simply passed through the QA department, without the necessary context to see the full picture of what needs to be accomplished. Sooner or later this leads to the development of low-quality software and the blaming of testers who let bugs to release. 

The team involvement process usually starts at the beginning of the project and includes at least one tester who is actively involved in the entire software development process. Taking the tester’s opinion into account and having an employee who follows web quality standards will help find problem areas that are likely to be missed by developers and managers. Even though it is the testing department that is highly responsible for the quality of software. Testing is teamwork, first of all. Any tester, who provides QA services, should not be left holding the bag when assessing the quality! This is a shared responsibility. 

Conclusions 

The reality is that a lot of project creation and launching leads to technical failure. If, for example, you work on a test automation project, it probably will not differ from many other projects of similar implementations. Sometimes, developers consider failures as something extremely unexpected. But over time, you can learn to spot beforehand signs that indicate that the project you’re working on is likely doomed long before anyone else sees it.