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Why throw-away test automation is a load of rubbish

Why throw-away test automation is a load of rubbish

Submitted by testercoder.com on Wed, 06/07/2005 - 20:30. test automation

Have you ever been asked to "just do some test automation quickly" so that it doesn't matter if it only gets used a few times? I certainly have been asked many times.
This suggestion usually seems to crops up when the application being tested is still undergoing lots of  change and any automated script is likely to only work for a very short time before it gets broken by some GUI change or other...read on

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Nonsense...

Submitted by xflibble on Fri, 08/07/2005 - 04:17.
Only yesterday I wrote a completely throwaway piece of test automation. I used it to enter data on a particularly large form. The script took me less than a few minutes to write, but saved me at least 10 times that in manual test effort. I can use this to augment my manual testing *or* integrate it into some other script later if I feel it will be useful.

This is perhaps why testers are finding tools like Watir to be really useful. My script may have taken more than a few minutes to write using different tools/languages/libraries.

Jared
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