A number of test automation ideas that at first glance seem very sensible actually contain pitfalls and problems that you should avoid. Dot Graham describes five of these “intelligent mistakes”—automated tests will find more bugs more quickly; spending a lot on a tool must guarantee great benefits; it’s necessary to automate all of our manual tests; tools are expensive so we have to show a substantial return on investment; and testing tools must be used by the testers. Dot points out that automation doesn’t find bugs; tests do. Good automation does not come out of the box and is not automatic. Automating everything may not give you better (or faster) testing. Determining the actual rate of return is not only surprisingly difficult but may actually be harmful. Turning testers into test automators may waste their skills and talents. Join Dot for a rousing discussion of intelligent mistakes—so you can be smart enough to avoid them.
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Intelligent Mistakes in Test Automation
1. W3
Concurrent Class
10/2/2013 11:30:00 AM
"Intelligent Mistakes in Test
Automation"
Presented by:
Dorothy Graham
Consultant
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2. Dorothy Graham
Software Test Consultant
In testing for more than thirty years, Dorothy Graham is coauthor of four books—Software
Inspection, Software Test Automation, Foundations of Software Testing, and Experiences of
Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation. Dot was a founding member of the
ISEB Software Testing Board, a member of the working party that developed the first ISTQB
Foundation Syllabus, and served on the boards of conferences and publications in software
testing.