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Test automation is about speed, scale, and precision. As software teams ship faster, the pressure on QA increases. Manual testing can’t keep up. You need a way to validate key workflows without slowing things down — that’s where automation test cases come in.

I’ve been in the automation testing game long enough to watch trends come and go. The biggest lesson I gained after all those year is how going back to the fundamentals is usually the "best" best practice. Here’s the thing — buzzwords mean nothing if you can’t trust your test suite. At the end of the day, it’s not about chasing hype. It’s about doing the basics really, really well. So here are 20 automation testing best practices for 2025.

Agile software development is all about moving fast. Quick iterations, faster releases, constant feedback: it’s a model designed for speed and flexibility. Teams love it because it lets them ship features faster and respond to changes without getting bogged down. But here’s the catch: every time you move fast, there’s a risk you’ll break something. That’s where regression testing comes in.

Shift-left testing was coined by Larry Smith in 2001, in which testing is performed earlier in the software testing life cycle, essentially "shifting" it to the left of the timeline. Ever since, shift left testing has been widely adopted by software testing teams worldwide to catch and address bugs as early as possible.

February introduced key enhancements to Katalon Studio, Runtime Engine, and TestCloud, boosting test automation efficiency, performance, and user experience. These updates reinforce our commitment to continuous improvement, enabling teams to test faster and more reliably. Here’s what’s new this month.

Embarking on the test automation journey can be exciting, and daunting, at the same time. It's exciting, because we all know how test automation translates into faster releases, fewer bugs, and most importantly, more bandwidth for QA teams to perform higher-value exploratory tests. It's daunting, because building a test automation tech-stack is full of unknowns: We wrote this article to answer those questions for you and simplify the process of embracing test automation.