Automated Testers Advocate for ChatGPT (AI) is like taxi drivers Singing for Driverless cars

It is interesting to analyse the reasoning behind it. By the way, Real Test Automation Engineers won’t believe ChatGPT will ever work for real test automation.

Zhimin Zhan

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If you are a software professional who works on testing, you must have heard of ChatGPT and see the articles like the ones below:

https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/using-chatgpt-for-test-automation/
https://saucelabs.com/blog/chatgpt-automated-testing-conversation-to-code
https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/how-will-chatgpt-change-the-testing-industry/64010

Update (2024–06): Please note the dates for the above, over one and half years ago. Did ChatGPT (despite the fact that the new version is 500+ times more powerful) change how you or your team do E2E automated testing?

ChatGPT is hot and became well-known quickly (starting December 2022). I expressed my opinion quite clearly in this article: “ChatGPT

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.