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Copyright 1998 by Brian Marick. All rights Should a Test Be Automated? Brian MarickTesting want to automate as many tests as I can. I m not comfortable running a test only if a programmer then changes the code and introduces a bug? What if I don t catchthat bug because I didn t rerun the test after the change? Wouldn t I feel horrible?Well, yes, but I m not paid to feel comfortable rather than horrible. I m paid to be cost-effective. It took me a long time, but I finally realized that I was over-automating, thatonly some of the tests I created Should be automated . Some of the tests I was automatingnot only did not find bugs when they were rerun, they had no significant prospect of doingso. Automating them was not a rational question, then, is how to make a rational decision. When I take a job as a contracttester, I typically design a series of tests for some product feature.
When Should a Test Be Automated? 4 Or you might be a testing version 1.0 of a shrinkwrap product whose product direction and code …
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