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Automation testing keeps bugs in detention, regressions out of class, and our releases firmly on the honour roll.
Automation testing is the overachieving teacher’s pet of software testing. It turns up early, does the same homework 400 times without complaining, and immediately tells everyone when somebody has broken something.
Our automated tests spend their evenings tirelessly checking the site while the rest of us pretend not to think about work.
They can:
catch bugs bunking off behind the bike sheds give regressions an immediate detention repeatedly test journeys without demanding a half-term break raise their hand the second something stops working produce report cards with considerably more red than anyone would like
Selenium is particularly dedicated. Give it a browser, a questionable XPath and enough time, and it will bravely click buttons until either the test passes or everyone involved starts reconsidering their career choices.
Automation testing: because “it worked yesterday” is not an acceptable GCSE qualification.