James Bach on automation ...

James bach has posted following blog post on Manual Tests and automation.

http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/58

It is prety interesting stuff. Read the post and my comments on that post.

Especially Rules of Automation as per James

Test Automation Rule #1: A good manual test cannot be automated.

Rule #1B: If you can truly automate a manual test, it couldn’t have been a good manual test.

Rule #1C: If you have a great automated test, it’s not the same as the manual test that you believe you were automating.

Note the comments chain for that blog post --- Really thought provoking

More on this later ...

Shrini