6 ways to accelerate automated software testing
Summary
Most of the attempts to add test tooling on top of an application simply fail, with automation delay as a common cause. Here some approaches to accelerate your test practices by squeezing out redundant actions and aligning functions so that they can run simultaneously. To set up users, you will need to fill out a web form, check your email, follow a link, log in and complete the rest of the profile details. All of that setup work doesnt really give us any more confidence -- and tests can be unpredictable for reasons not easy to pin down anyway -- and it is unlikely to find bugs in the areas of create profile or account. Brian Marick, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, once told me that computers are really good at doing things that do not require incredibly quick thinking.