In today's market scenarios everyone wants test automation. Because we have to deliver software in a very short period of time with the best quality. Test automation is the process that allows us to focus on deliverables with the best testing results. But before starting test automation for our project we need to focus on the below points.

1. Analysis of what To automate and what not- As we know that 100% test automation is next to impossible. We have to write test cases that cover most of the functionality. And we have to skip those test cases which belong to the old version. We should analyze the test pyramid before implementing test automation in the project.

1. How we are doing Testing Currently: We need to analyze what are the challenges in the current testing process. Is it taking too much time? What will be the ROI if we implement test automation? How helpful it would be?

2. Create a plan for implementing test automation: We should create a well-defined plan from where we are going to start our test automation. Like which APIs or which scenarios we are going to cover first. How many flows we are going to automate? What kinds of assertions we are going to apply to test cases? How we are going to create test data for the test cases? These things should be in our plan before starting test automation.

3. Programming Language: We have to make sure we are using a programming language that is getting used by developers also. So that developers can also contribute to the test automation and we can calculate code coverage easily. Sometimes developers and testers write code in the same repository. It is helpful for CI/CD implementation also. So that unit test and integration tests run easily.

4. Testing EndPoint: Integration tests should be automated from public gateways. So that we can cover complete flow while testing. This approach can make your test flicky if you are dependent on some other services and those are not stable. But it's helpful when you have to automate end to end test cases

5. Scale-up automation: We should always make our automation scalable to cover all possible test cases. We should have a better environment for executing test cases and the automation framework should have all functionalities.