Software Engineering vs Automation in Testing

Nov 27, 2025

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Software Engineering topics vs Automated Testing topics

How to learn automated testing? Is it worth going on a software development course, or is it better to learn how to automate tests instead? Where is an overlap of features?

Oleksandr Romanov
Senior Software Engineer in Test
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14+ years in testing and engineering | Co-host at Testing Minutes podcast | Writing and podcasting about test engineering, blockchain, and distributed systems | Views are my own
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