5 signals that show test automation is shifting towards developers

Testing is shifting in a way where quality is increasingly everyone's responsibility

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Lisa Crispin
IME, the most effective automation happened when developers (programmers) practiced test-driven development or at least automated unit level tests, and collaborated with testers to automate at API and UI levels. Google's DORA research backs that up. IME when devs do ALL the automation - they weirdly do a poor job at UI level. That's why we need to collaborate! Testers are great at specifying tests & knowing appropriate coverage, coders are great at writing maintainable, well designed code.

Rosie Sherry
@lisa that's cool to hear from DORA, and backs up what I'm hearing in the LWQ conversations. The test automation is shifting to developers and now I feel exploratory, agile and systems thinking type testing is being given more importance.

Aiman B T Syed
@rosie "I feel exploratory, agile and systems thinking type testing is being given more importance." I second and its also something being testers we always wanted to see prosper in long run, looks like its about time!

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