An Unbelievable True Story: People’s Fixation on an Obviously Failed “Self-Created” Test Automation Framework
While it is common that management sticks with a wrong decision, it is rare to an insane degree!
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Since I switched my day job from Programming to Test Automation 13 years ago, I have worked on many software projects as a contract test automation engineer, regardless of title (several testing conferences’ brochures listed me as one of the world’s leading test automation experts), as long as I could do hands-on work on automated test scripts. Also, I declined any management roles or work involved with many meetings (such as test automation committee on testing strategy or like).
While working on these projects, I wanted to
- prove my test automation formula works for all web apps.
(Affirmative) - broad my knowledge to cover tricky scenarios
(I am particularly interested in the websites that people claim an impossible mission to automate)
I worked like this for about six years and improved my test automation efficiency further. Because of these experiences, I could do test creation live for clients on the first meet. It may sound like…
