It Was Beautiful
The year was 2001, and my team and I were feeling rather proud of ourselves. We had just put the finishing touches on what we thought was the Rolls-Royce of automated testing tools. We had built our very own, homegrown, fully automated, UI testing framework. And it was amazing!
This thing had everything. With the click of a button, you could fire up the app, record a test, and then play it back while making assertions about things you had seen along the way. It was easy to use. Running the tests made for great demos (because you could actually see the application running). And the best part of all, our build engineers had even found a way to include the scripts as part of our continuous build and integration process—meaning we ...
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