Context: Software testing is expensive, labor intensive and consumes lot of time in a software development life cycle. There was always a need in software testing to decrease the testing time. This also resulted to focus on Automated Software Testing (AST), because using automated testing, with specific tools, this effort can be dramatically reduced and the costs related with testing can decrease [11]. Manual Testing (MT) requires lot of effort and hard work, if we measure in terms of person per month [11]. Automated Software testing helps to decrease the work load by giving some testing tasks to the computers. Computer systems are cheap, they are faster and don‘t get bored and can work continuously in the weekends. Due to this advantage many researches are working towards the Automation of software testing, which can help to complete the task in less testing time [10]. Objectives: The main aims of this thesis is to 1.) To systematically classify contributions within AST. 2.) To identify the different benefits and challenges of AST. 3.) To identify the whether the reported benefits and challenges found in the literature are prevalent in industry. Methods: To fulfill our aims and objectives, we used Systematic mapping research methodology to systematically classify contributions within AST. We also used SLR to identify the different benefits and challenges of AST. Finally, we performed web based survey to validate the finding of SLR. Results: After performing Systematic mapping, the main aspects within AST include purpose of automation, levels of testing, Technology used, different types of research types used and frequency of AST studies over the time. From Systematic literature review, we found the benefits and challenges of AST. The benefits of AST include higher product quality, less testing time, reliability, increase in confidence, reusability, less human effort, reduction of cost and increase in fault detection. The challenges include failure to achieve expected goals, difficulty in maintenance of test automation, Test automation needs more time to mature, false expectations and lack of skilled people for test automation tools. From web survey, it is observed that almost all the benefits and challenges are prevalent in industry. The benefits such as fault detection and confidence are in contrary to the results of SLR. The challenge about the appropriate test automation strategy has 24 % disagreement from the respondents and 30% uncertainty. The reason is that the automation strategy is totally dependent on the test manager of the project. When asked “Does automated software testing fully replace manual testing”, 80% disagree with this challenge. Conclusion: The classification of the AST studies using systematic mapping gives an overview of the work done in the area of AST and also helps to find research coverage in the area of AST. These results can be used by researchers to use the gaps found in the mapping studies to carry on future work. The results of SLR and web survey clearly show that the practitioners clearly realize the benefits and challenges of AST reported in the literature. / Mobile no: +46723069909

O desafio das empresas tem sido manter sua competitividade em um mercado de rápidas mudanças e com um consumidor/cliente cada vez mais exigente. Ter competência e rapidez nas respostas representa hoje um grande desafio que exige recursos diferenciados. São as pessoas que podem garantir o desenho e a implementação da estratégia por meio de uma gestão competente, gerando produtos e serviços com qualidade para atender a esse novo consumidor. Por esta razão, as empresas necessitam de profissionais qualificados, tanto para as posições mais estratégicas, na tomada de decisão, como na operação. Entretanto, a área de gestão de pessoas, responsável pelo recrutamento e seleção, vem demonstrando preocupação com a capacidade do mercado brasileiro e, em especial São Paulo para ofertar profissionais qualificados e atender à demanda das empresas. Esta questão tem emergido e, com isto, surgiu o termo \"apagão de mão de obra\". Entretanto, é preciso entender o quanto este apagão é real e o quanto este fato pode tornar o mercado de profissionas tão competitivo quanto o mercado de consumo, a ponto de as empresas disputarem profissionais como disputam consumidores/clientes. Este contexto gerou duas reflexões: a primeira é o quanto a área de gestão de pessoas está preparada e tem desenvolvido uma estratégia efetiva para a atração de talentos; e, na sequência, o quanto a área de marketing, com a sua experiência em lidar com mercados competitivos, pode contribuir com a área de gestão de pessoas, compartilhando as ferramentas utilizadas para atrair os consumidores. Assim, optou-se, por um estudo exploratório com metodologia qualitativa para entender a percepção dos profissionais de gestão de pessoas sobre o \"apagão de mão de obra\" e identificar o quanto as ferramentas de marketing podem contribuir para a atração de talentos. Os resultados revelaram que é percebida uma escassez de profissionais qualificados no mercado, e que o chamado \"apagão de mão obra\" ocorre em áreas específicas, dependendo do segmento da empresa, e não de forma generalizada. O resultado da pesquisa identificou similaridades entre os mercados de profissionais e de consumo, assim como a possibilidade de aplicação das ferramentas: employer branding, posicionamento, segmentação e marketing de relacionamento na atração de talentos. Foi identificado, também, que este tema ainda é tratado de forma operacional e reativa, faltando à área de gestão de pessoas uma atuação mais estratégica e orientada para o mercado de profissionais. / The corporate challenge has been to maintain its competitiveness in a rapidly changing market and with an increasingly demanding consumer/client. Being competent and timely response represents today a major challenge that requires special feature. Only people can ensure the design and strategy implementation through a competent management, providing quality products and services to meet this new consumer/client. For this reason, companies need qualified professionals, both for strategic positions in decision-making, as in operation. However, the area of people management, which is responsible for recruitment and selection, has been showing concern about the ability of the supply of qualified professionals, in Brazil and in particular in the State of São Paulo, to meet business demand. This issue has emerged and, with this, the term \"labor blackout\". However, one must understand how much this blackout is real and how this fact can make the professional market as competitive as the consumer market, to the point where companies compete as professionals disputing consumers/clients. This gives rise to two thoughts: the first is how much the area of people management is prepared and has developed an effective strategy for attracting talents; and, as a result, how much the marketing area, with its experience in dealing with competitive markets, can contribute to the area of people management, sharing the tools used to attract consumers. So, it was decided, preliminarily, for an exploratory study with qualitative methodology to understand the perception of professionals people management on the labor blackout and identify how much the marketing tools can contribute to attract talents. The results revealed that a shortage of qualified professionals in the market is perceived, and that the so-called \"labor blackout\" occurs in specific areas, depending on the segment of the company, and not generally. The survey results identified similarities between the professional and consumer markets, as well as the possibility of tools application: employer branding, positioning, segmentation and relationship marketing in attracting talent. It was also identified that this topic is still treated as operational and reactive, being the area of people management short of a more strategic performance and market-oriented.

O desafio das empresas tem sido manter sua competitividade em um mercado de rápidas mudanças e com um consumidor/cliente cada vez mais exigente. Ter competência e rapidez nas respostas representa hoje um grande desafio que exige recursos diferenciados. São as pessoas que podem garantir o desenho e a implementação da estratégia por meio de uma gestão competente, gerando produtos e serviços com qualidade para atender a esse novo consumidor. Por esta razão, as empresas necessitam de profissionais qualificados, tanto para as posições mais estratégicas, na tomada de decisão, como na operação. Entretanto, a área de gestão de pessoas, responsável pelo recrutamento e seleção, vem demonstrando preocupação com a capacidade do mercado brasileiro e, em especial São Paulo para ofertar profissionais qualificados e atender à demanda das empresas. Esta questão tem emergido e, com isto, surgiu o termo \"apagão de mão de obra\". Entretanto, é preciso entender o quanto este apagão é real e o quanto este fato pode tornar o mercado de profissionas tão competitivo quanto o mercado de consumo, a ponto de as empresas disputarem profissionais como disputam consumidores/clientes. Este contexto gerou duas reflexões: a primeira é o quanto a área de gestão de pessoas está preparada e tem desenvolvido uma estratégia efetiva para a atração de talentos; e, na sequência, o quanto a área de marketing, com a sua experiência em lidar com mercados competitivos, pode contribuir com a área de gestão de pessoas, compartilhando as ferramentas utilizadas para atrair os consumidores. Assim, optou-se, por um estudo exploratório com metodologia qualitativa para entender a percepção dos profissionais de gestão de pessoas sobre o \"apagão de mão de obra\" e identificar o quanto as ferramentas de marketing podem contribuir para a atração de talentos. Os resultados revelaram que é percebida uma escassez de profissionais qualificados no mercado, e que o chamado \"apagão de mão obra\" ocorre em áreas específicas, dependendo do segmento da empresa, e não de forma generalizada. O resultado da pesquisa identificou similaridades entre os mercados de profissionais e de consumo, assim como a possibilidade de aplicação das ferramentas: employer branding, posicionamento, segmentação e marketing de relacionamento na atração de talentos. Foi identificado, também, que este tema ainda é tratado de forma operacional e reativa, faltando à área de gestão de pessoas uma atuação mais estratégica e orientada para o mercado de profissionais. / The corporate challenge has been to maintain its competitiveness in a rapidly changing market and with an increasingly demanding consumer/client. Being competent and timely response represents today a major challenge that requires special feature. Only people can ensure the design and strategy implementation through a competent management, providing quality products and services to meet this new consumer/client. For this reason, companies need qualified professionals, both for strategic positions in decision-making, as in operation. However, the area of people management, which is responsible for recruitment and selection, has been showing concern about the ability of the supply of qualified professionals, in Brazil and in particular in the State of São Paulo, to meet business demand. This issue has emerged and, with this, the term \"labor blackout\". However, one must understand how much this blackout is real and how this fact can make the professional market as competitive as the consumer market, to the point where companies compete as professionals disputing consumers/clients. This gives rise to two thoughts: the first is how much the area of people management is prepared and has developed an effective strategy for attracting talents; and, as a result, how much the marketing area, with its experience in dealing with competitive markets, can contribute to the area of people management, sharing the tools used to attract consumers. So, it was decided, preliminarily, for an exploratory study with qualitative methodology to understand the perception of professionals people management on the labor blackout and identify how much the marketing tools can contribute to attract talents. The results revealed that a shortage of qualified professionals in the market is perceived, and that the so-called \"labor blackout\" occurs in specific areas, depending on the segment of the company, and not generally. The survey results identified similarities between the professional and consumer markets, as well as the possibility of tools application: employer branding, positioning, segmentation and relationship marketing in attracting talent. It was also identified that this topic is still treated as operational and reactive, being the area of people management short of a more strategic performance and market-oriented.