"With an automated test script, correct execution does not present a challenge and a completely reliable test of test objectives is ensures. This also applies to situations where people tend to be negligent, for example on Monday mornings or Friday afternoons, when repeating a test for the nth time within a short period, or when the workload is extremely heavy. Automated testing ensures a greater degree of reliability than manual testing."
I recently read this as one of the benefits of Test Automation
Ignoring all the other aspects of it ( 'does not present a challenge', 'completely reliable' ), it was the 'negligent testers' part that made me chuckle.
Why stop at Friday afternoons and Monday mornings though ?
What if your testers are tennis fans - Wimbledon is on at the moment so they will have one eye on the matches and might be negligent
After that it's the Ashes - any cricket fans wont want to miss that just so they can check a few test results
The day after the office party wouldn't be a good day to run manual tests either
As for next year when the World Cup starts.... better make sure you have a months worth of automated testing you can do then
Oh yeh, make sure you dont write these automated tests on a Friday afternoon or a Monday morning when you are feeling negligent
( for those that dont know about POETS Day - the BBC explain it here except that it's not really 'Push' but another word... )
Thursday, 2 July 2009
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I dunno, some of my best manual testing has been on poets days.
Gives you a different perspective..
Totally unprofessional advice of course, and I wouldn't recommend anyone follow it..:)
dont follow it unless you are a maverick tester ;)
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