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Industry leaders look for tools, engines, and frameworks that are capable of automating the application with fewer lines of code or without any code at all. In other words, the tools or engines which can enable the QA engineers (having less/no coding experience) to automate the test cases in less time and more accuracy fall under codeless test automation.

As per the prediction by Future Market Insights, the demand for codeless testing will rise by 15.5% CAGR by 2031.

Codeless Test Case Automation Techniques

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  Command/Step Parsing

  Command parsing is an approach, where the test cases written in plain English language are parsed step by step, either using AI techniques like natural language process (NLP) or simple string parsing, which is a less mature method.

  Further, after understanding the context of the test step, the element is searched on the current page of the application and the required action is performed. The NLP feature in Functionize enables the tool to convert plain English language test cases to test scripts.

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  Step Recorders

  This is a very common technique used in codeless automation tools, where engineers can record the test steps in the recorder linked with the automation tool and save them in the form of test cases. Katalon Studio and TestCraft are some software that provides such services.

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  Model-Based Automation

  Model-based automation is a modern technique that uses application models to generate test cases automatically. Models reflect the workflow or business flow of the application. Models can be in the form of flowcharts, tables, and dependency graphs. Tricentis Tosca provides such service.

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  AI & ML Engine

  This is one of the latest codeless automation techniques introduced by AI & ML-based automation tools. In this technique, the engineers need to record a few end-to-end scenarios for applications, and by analyzing the recorded test cases, ML engines develop more test scripts automatically to provide 100% test coverage. Automatically created test cases can be approved/declined by the stakeholders. Functionize provides such services.