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Seven Proven Ways to Ruin Your Test Automation

on YouTube 25m
TalkinGermanat HUSTEF 2018 · 2018-10-29..10-31· [testing, developer-experience]

speaker

name:Seretta Gamba
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/hImlIefu1cA
slides:none on file

summary

This talk lists seven concrete failure modes that destroy test automation: hoarding knowledge in a single ‘knowledge champion’, vendor tool lock-in, brittle capture‑replay scripts, automating fragile/manual workflows and interdependent tests, pretending management support, setting impossible targets, and developers constantly changing UI objects. For each problem it points to explicit test automation patterns and modular design practices (documented on a patterns wiki) as the countermeasures.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 3:51Ignoring docs
  3. 7:54Unrealistic expectations
  4. 12:12Overcomplicating scripts
  5. 16:20Lack of maintenance
  6. 20:33Management's role

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