Cowardly ‘Automated Testers’ use “GUI Test Automation is hard” as an excuse to avoid, instead do only API Testing

Come on, be a software testing engineer, do test as an end-user would. API Testing is very limited, compared to end-to-end (via UI) test automation. If doing properly, end-to-end (via UI) test automation is not that hard, in fact, fun and quite satisfying.

Zhimin Zhan
9 min readMay 30, 2023

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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.