Seven Sins of Software Testing Automation

In this blog post, Adrian Smith discusses 7 pitfalls of automating software testing. The seven sins are over indulging on propriety testing tools, too lazy to setup CI server to execute tests, loving the UI so much that all tests are executed through the UI, jealously creating tests and not collaborating, frustration with fragile tests that break intermittently, thinking automated tests will replace all manual testing, too much automated testing not matched to defined system quality.