How a Small Team Can Start and Not Fail at Automating with Gherkin

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The talk explains how a small team can start and successfully implement test automation using Gherkin and BDD practices, addressing common resistance and misunderstandings about BDD in QA Automation. It covers practical steps and pitfalls to avoid so teams can adopt Gherkin-based automation without failing.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:16Manual automation problems
3. 7:49Preparation stage
4. 13:47Test audit stage
5. 17:40Readable tests and DSL
6. 22:57Implementation and integration
7. 26:27Results and metrics
8. 38:30Q&A

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