Laws in Software Development: 80/20 Rule in E2E Test Automation

“Achieving More with Less”

This article is one of the “Laws in Software Development” series:

• 80/20 Rule
• Broken Window Theory
• Parkinson’s Law: “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”
• Sturgeon’s law: “ninety percent of everything is crap”
• Murphy’s law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”
• The 10,000-Hour Rule: “The key to achieving true expertise is simply a matter of practicing”
• Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.”
• Hosftadter’s Law: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
• Conway’s Law: “Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.”
• …

Table of Contents:
· The 80/20 Principle
· 20% Automated E2E (UI) Tests Cover about 80% of Code Base
· Regression Testing: 80% Automated E2E (UI) and 20% Manual (Exploratory)
· 80% of E2E Test Automation Effort on Test Stabilization and Maintenance