New Year’s Resolutions for Fake Automated Testers: Do Real End-to-end Test Automation
Say No to “Fake End-to-End Test Automation”
My Definition of Fake Automated Tester: a full-time software professional is hired to perform Automated End-to-end (via UI, if the app has) Testing, but he/she fails to accomplish daily execution of the automated test suite as regression testing to provide quick and valid feedback. Therefore, the team lacks confidence in the results of the automated testing and heavily relies on manual functional testing.
Readers can self-assess. For those who prefer specifics, check out the article, One Simple Test Automation Scenario Interview Question that Most Candidates Failed.
Table of Contents:
· Fake Test Automation is Common
· The Results of wide-spread Fake Test Automation these years
· The Nonsenses
· There is a way
Fake Test Automation is Common
Drawing from my 17 years of experience in this industry, 95+% of so-called “test automation engineers” and “automated testers” are fake. This figure is quite conservative compared to the ones from some experts.
“95% of the time, 95% of test…
