Pros and cons with test automation

When you talk with people, most are enthusiastic about the prospect of test automation. Imagine all the benefits that await us with it:

  • Higher software quality
  • Higher confidence that the software releases we make will work as intended
  • Less of the monotonous tedium of laborious manual testing

All very good and desirable things!

In practice, though, if you spend time with different organizations with complex multi-tiered products, you will notice people talking about test automation, but you will also notice a suspicious absence of test automation in practice. Why is that?

If you just compile programs and deploy them once they pass compilation, you will likely be in for a bad experience. Software testing ...

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