Adopting Automated Verification

The efforts toward automated verification, or what we’ll loosely call automated testing, varies widely across the industry; broadly there are three different adoption efforts:

  • No automation, only manual verification. These are largely done by teams in denial. They struggle to validate their applications after each change and suffer from the consequences.

  • Automation mostly at the user interface (UI) level. Quite a few teams have realized the need for automation verification, but have focused most of their efforts at the UI level. This leads to pathway-to-hell automation—we’ll shortly discuss why.

  • Automation at the right levels. This is done by mature teams that have gone beyond the first step of realizing ...

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