Identify the Eligible Process for Automation

Start with the right candidates

Automation doesn’t begin with tools — it begins with judgment. The first step is to identify tasks that are stable, repetitive, and rule-based. These are the processes that consume time and are prone to human error.

By filtering out what's not worth automating, you save time, reduce complexity, and make sure your automation efforts actually deliver value.

Look for processes that already have clear documentation or are governed by fixed business rules. The more predictable the task, the better it performs under automation.

Use-case 1: Choosing What to Automate in a Sprint

In each sprint, a test manager oversees dozens of test cases — covering UI, backend, integration, and more. But with limited time and people, not everything can be automated. The real challenge is what to automate first.

While automation planning

A picture of the overall tasks would be something like below

• UI tests are flaky due to frequent frontend changes
• End-to-end flows need complex data setup
• Some validations are business-rule heavy and change often
• Testers manually repeat checks that barely change across cycles
• Increase in scope of regression testing
• API endpoints having multiple endpoints

Evaluation parameters

Ask the below questions to assess the eligible processes

• Repeat frequency - Is this tested in every sprint?
  Preferred answer: Yes
• Functional stability – Does the feature change often, or not?
  Preferred answer: Does not change
• Test clarity – Are the steps and expected results consistent?
  Preferred answer: Yes
• Effort vs. return – Will automation save significant time long-term?
• Maintenance load – Will this be easy to update if needed?

This step is not about automating everything — it’s about identifying high-value, low-maintenance pieces to begin with. Starting small and strategic builds momentum for larger automation efforts.

Use-case 2: Automating GET API Tests Across Environments

After the team has shortlisted GET APIs like /getUsers, /getProducts, and /getSettings, the next step is to automate them with minimal setup. These APIs return structured data and are checked across QA, staging, and pre-prod — often with the same inputs every sprint.

How you automate them using BusStop:

• Add your API endpoints to a suite
• Upload test data via files — avoid typing values again every sprint
• Define environments once — reuse across builds
• Click run — execute all tests in bulk
• Get results instantly — no switching tabs or setting up new tools