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!

The silly person hits his own foot, image credit: https://www.sohu.com/a/231853936_642840

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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…