Test Automation Quotes

“A common pattern for teams that start with test automation, or development groups that start breaking down silos between testers and developers, is to take existing manual tests and automate them. Unless it’s a training exercise for an automation tool, this is almost always a bad idea.”
― Gojko Adzic, Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests

“When teams decide to automate a set of existing tests that were previously designed as manual tests, the best way forward is to rewrite and redesign the tests from scratch. Keep the purpose, but throw away pretty much everything else.”
― Gojko Adzic, Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests

“As a first step in test automation, it is important to learn how to
build an automation framework”
― Narayanan Palani, Software Automation Testing Secrets Revealed Part 1 Revised Edition

“A commonly used expression is that the difference between unit tests and acceptance tests is that unit tests helps you build the thing right, whereas acceptance tests helps you build the right thing.”
― Sumit Bisht, Robot Framework Test Automation