13 Test Automation Practices You Should be Afraid Of

This document lists 13 test automation practices that should be avoided, including record and playback testing, not planning test frameworks before coding, treating automation as a checkbox rather than essential, having thousands of UI tests without maintaining them, ignoring test results, focusing too much on a specific tool instead of principles, only automating UI tests without other types, attempting to automate everything without prioritization, rewriting frameworks frequently, not code reviewing automation code, and losing focus on using automation to improve quality. The full document provides more details on each practice and promotes discovering good automation practices.