Automation

Are Testing Tools the Silver Bullet?

November 13, 2011 | posted in: Automation, Testing, Tools | by

Are your current testing practices inefficient and archaic? Are you about to acquire a test tool to solve the problem? How do you know what tools to use? Once you decide upon a tool, how do you make sure it does not become shelfware? These are some of the common concerns faced by many organisations..

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Will test automation put manual testers out of a job?

October 25, 2011 | posted in: Automation, Testing | by 2 Comments

This may appear as somewhat of a frightening question, but the answer will depend on who it is that you are asking and what experiences they are basing it on. A colleague of mine is an Automation Tester and quite a brilliant one, but he posed a scenario to me not long ago that made me..

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Start with the end in mind

September 21, 2011 | posted in: Agile, Automation, General, Testing | by

Steven Covey got it right when he suggested “Start with the end in mind”. I’m regularly disappointed when I see automated testing projects fail. There are many reasons but a recurring problem I see is related to a total lack of planning around transitioning an automation project into BAU. No-one has really thought about what..

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