Record/Playback in Test Automation is Bad, mostly.

Avoid using record-n-playback tools. Hand-craft automated test scripts instead.

Zhimin Zhan
5 min readMar 1, 2023

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This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series.

In Automated End-to-End Testing, many so-called ‘cool’ features (as below) are either counter-productive or unnecessary:

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.