Automate Acceptance Tests With Hound
Manual acceptance tests are powerful, but they are also cumbersome to run. You performed tests in this chapter that took several minutes to execute, at a minimum, and were prone to error if you missed any of the steps. We can improve on manual acceptance tests by automating them.
Automated acceptance tests are extremely powerful because they let you run hundreds or thousands of acceptance tests without a person being involved. If each acceptance test takes one minute to execute (a very conservative estimate), then one thousand tests would take over 16 hours of non-stop testing! It would be extremely costly to fully cover a large application with manual acceptance tests. Automated acceptance tests improve ...
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