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Make a strategy - Selenium Tutorial
From the course: Test Automation Foundations
Make a strategy
- Before jumping in to write tests, it's smart to plan out the approach. Get the group of stakeholders together to list the highest priority features. The business stakeholders should be able to provide a list of those features. From there, spend time to brainstorm what type of scenarios will be automated versus manual for each feature. Scenarios that are good candidates for automation are those that test the highest impact features, are tedious to do manually, and provide the same result every time. As your team brainstorms scenarios, also try to identify types of test that can cover each scenario. Considering the inputs, actions, and outputs of the test can help here. As a general rule, you'll want to push automation to the lowest level. Going back to the test pyramid, it's good to have the most number of unit tests, a medium number of integration tests, and a small number of UI tests. So if a scenario will have…
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