Skills in #TestAutomation That Matter | History of Testing
summary
Looks at concrete historical projects and the skills behind them: 1870s telegraph testing in India uses the Wheatstone bridge and gometer to find line faults and teaches modeling limits; 1904 St Louis locomotive rigs run steam engines in place and capture vibration temperature and torque for dynamic analysis; 1938–1942 telephone switch testers use paper‑tape programs (up to 1,200 tapes) and claim up to 80% test time reduction while emphasizing recordkeeping, experiment design, and knowing what the tools change versus what they observe.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to WESTI
- 2:24Telegraph system testing
- 9:04Locomotive test automation
- 11:30Telephone switching systems
- 13:42Core testing fundamentals
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