The goals of automated testing
Testing is more than creating a safety net. Let’s talk about its multiple facets.
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7 min readDec 3, 2020
In an agile mindset, the team is responsible for the delivered software. In this scenario, QA is ensured by the whole team. Automation is a core tenet of DevOps culture, meaning developers should write automated tests. Manually testing everything does not scale up and is incompatible with continuous delivery. QA-specialized people should be doing other types of work like exploratory testing, usability testing, acceptance testing, etc.
