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and test bed creation. Some amount of database testing was also being automated.
en, in the 1990s, when the Internet started to make its presence felt, some test-
ing tool vendors appeared on the horizon. ese early tools were able to capture
user screens and user activity during transactions. Most of this automation can be
referred to as “record and play.”
In recent history Worksoft and some other vendors have introduced some tools
that capture the business logic of any application in such a way that even when
there are changes in the application, the automation code also gets changed and
thus runs without needing any maintenance of the script. is functionality is
called code-free automation. Basica ...