Editing Test automation (section)

==General approaches==
There are many approaches to test automation, however below are the general approaches used widely:

* '''[[Graphical user interface testing]]'''. A testing framework that generates [[Graphical user interface|user interface]] events such as keystrokes and mouse clicks, and observes the changes that result in the user interface, to validate that the observable behavior of the program is correct.
* '''[[API testing|API driven testing]]'''. A testing framework that uses a programming interface to the application to validate the behaviour under test. Typically API driven testing bypasses application user interface altogether. It can also be testing [[public interface|public (usually) interfaces]] to classes, modules or libraries are tested with a variety of input arguments to validate that the results that are returned are correct.