The most important factor that needs consideration is the hardware platform, while some may use the Mac platform, some may use Linux, while others may use Microsoft platform. The next comes the browsers and their versions into the picture. Along with the browser versions, the different Plug-Ins also have to be taken into consideration. The resolution of the monitor also with color depth and text size are some of the other configurations.

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Automation is the integration of testing tools into the test environment in such a manner that the test execution, logging, and comparison of results are done with little human intervention. A testing tool is a software application which helps automate the testing process. But the testing tool is not the complete answer for automation. One of the huge mistakes done in testing automation is automating the wrong things during development. Many testers learn the hard way that everything cannot be automated. The best components to automate are repetitive tasks. So some companies first start with manual testing and then see which tests are the most repetitive ones and only those are then automated.

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