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A Tale Story: Real QA Engineers Don’t Have Time for Visual/Component Testing
Under good leadership, inexperienced automated testers can learn and do useful E2E (via UI) testing for the team in a matter of days.
Josh is an experienced automated tester who created automated UI tests for some user stories, which haven’t been run for months. Josh knew that many of those tests failed, but he had no confidence to maintain them (as it is an ongoing task, and it seems the management doesn’t care or notice anyway).
Josh started doing Cypress-styled component testing, API Testing and Visual Testing to justify his existence. He could talk about those in stand-ups, sometimes even demonstrated that and received some polite “Cool” comments. All team members treated Josh as an ‘extra’ person. No one really cared about his work, as the team’s testing was conducted 100% by manual testers.
A new manager, Russ, is determined to speed up the sloppy development process and improve the quality (100+ defects in the Defect Management System). Russ announced that the team would resolve those defects first. No one could argue about that.
Russ told Josh, “I know the automated UI tests have not been run for months, as the team solely relied on manual…
