Script-less Automated End-to-End Testing is Silly, Doomed to Fail!

If the test scripts are not plain-text in a scripting language, avoid it.

Over the years, I have witnessed many attempts to test automation using Scriptless, Codeless, or No-Code approaches.

• Recorder-Generated
  Commonly found in old-generation test automation tools, such as Rational Functional Tester.
• So-called Codeless Test Automation
  Typically, allow users to drag and Drop based on Object-Identification to generate test scripts.
• AI Testing
  This is the hype of the moment, such as ChatGPT. Generating automated test scripts based on user requests.

Source: LinkedIn

Of course, all these attempts failed. The reason, it violates the fundamentals of Test Automation. I will illustrate with web test automation, the most popular type of testing. The same principles applied to Desktop and Mobile test automation.

Table of contents:
∘ 1. No matter what, it is the test scripts that drive the automation.
∘ 2. All software contains bugs, including the test automation software, of course
∘ 3. Test Creation is only ~10%…