Cloud test automation is the process in which developers can use cloud computing environments to rapidly test software components or entire systems and verify intended functionality. Teams can run automated parallel tests in the cloud to find and fix bugs, stress test core systems, and increase the efficiency of their quality assurance processes. For example, manual regression tests often take large teams dozens of hours to perform tedious work, ensuring nothing breaks each time a developer makes a pull request. Instead, you can automate this work by integrating your product with your testing suite of choice through an API. Your cloud solution will handle these monotonous tasks while your team spends its valuable time and energy on other development work. DevOps teams that develop with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines especially benefit from integrating cloud automation testing. As teams continue to automate processes that rapidly push code updates to the cloud, incorporating automated testing procedures into the CI/CD pipeline can ensure rigorous regression, performance, and device QA checks take place immediately before and after delivering updates to production or staging environments. That’s not to say manual testing doesn’t have its place. Nothing beats having a dedicated QA team to handle the more human-facing aspects of product development, like working through UX issues or ensuring accessibility for users who are disabled. Automating as much as possible will enable you to iterate quickly and adapt your product to a constantly shifting market.