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06: Joe Colantonio : The Top 6 Automation Best Practices

30 March 2014 at 9:10 PM
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06: Joe Colantonio : The Top 6 Automation Best Practices

Best Practices for Test Automation

Want to know what the top six automation best practices are? Joe shares with you his top killers of automation performance and reliability.

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The Top 6 Automation Best Practices:

  1. Synchronization
  2. Not everything should be a UI test
  3. Don’t treat your test scripts as code
  4. Test Errors vs Failures
  5. Don’t run against all browsers and OS versions
  6. Start with the easy things first

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