Why Are Most E2E Test Automation Training Not Effective? Part 1: Unqualified Instructor, often not even a Dedicated One

Real E2E Test Automation Engineers are rare, make sure your Instructor is one of them. Here, by qualification, I mean practical hands-on skills, not just a certificate.

Non-Medium Members: You can read this article free on Substack.

Given the importance of E2E testing in agile projects and the lack of test automation education in universities, one might assume software companies routinely provide their staff with hands-on, instructor-led E2E test automation training (NOT pre-recorded courses like those on Udemy). However, the reality is quite the opposite.

Quite commonly, testers wanted to learn E2E test automation, but their managers usually completely ignored their requests, as depicted in this real story. Why? I can think of two main reasons:

1. Many test managers have experienced multiple failed test automation attempts, leading them to doubt the effectiveness of test automation (even though they can’t publicly oppose it, self-labelled ‘Agile’).
2. The quality of their experienced E2E test automation is very poor.
   I encountered this…