What do people mean when they say "automation is a tool"?
24 Mar 2025
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In Emily O'Connor's first 404 talk, she discusses her understanding of the meaning of “automated testing is a tool”.
When performing exploratory testing, testers learn a lot about the system under test, but by the time automation is written - testers are only putting into code fixed assertions, meaning that automation does not provide new knowledge and is used as a tool to save teams time searching for regression bugs.
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