Building Maintainable Test Agents with TestMaker
Many developers are skeptical when evaluating commercial test tools. “Why should my company pay all this money for a tool,” they think, “with a new set of instructions or a language to learn, when I could just write the test agent myself?”
The problem with writing a test agent comes down to one word: maintenance. Just like every other software application, the test agent needs to be maintained. Master developers ask themselves, “Who will maintain the code when I am no longer here?”
A brief, unscientific survey of Silicon Valley developers who write their own test agents finds that maintaining test agents grows from a minor irritation to a huge problem. The typical developer's first attempt at writing ...
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