As an Agile/Testing consultant, trainer and coach there are certain questions I hear often. One of them is: "What tool should we use for test automation?"
My response is usually the same: "What do you want to automate? What kinds of tests or checks?"
Very often I see people and teams make the mistake of trying to find the silver bullet.. the one tool to automate everything. Alas, there is no such tool and I don't believe there ever will be. At least, not in the foreseeable future.
It's about this time that I usually look for a whiteboard or piece of paper so I can sketch a few diagrams to help illustrate the problem. There are two diagrams in particular that I like to use. (Aside: for reference, I first publicly presented this at the DevReach 2012 conference, and it is part of the Agile/Testing classes I teach. This is the first time I am blogging the topic since I am often asked about it.)
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