{"id":185,"date":"2006-05-23T17:12:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T16:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/best-practices-in-test-automation\/"},"modified":"2010-07-12T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T17:59:53","slug":"best-practices-in-test-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2006\/best-practices-in-test-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices in Test Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for one of my clients into how costs can be reduced, or quality increased, by increasing the extent to which testing is automated.<\/p>\n<p>As a first step, I am trying to develop a comprehensive list of test automation &#8220;best practices&#8221;, grouped roughly by life-cycle (or iteration) stage. I&#8217;m trying to find practices which are broadly independent of specific methods and technologies, although obviously tool support may vary depending on the chosen technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/agile\/articles\/agile practices.asp\">This article<\/a> is my first draft of such a list.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d welcome suggestions from my readers if you think there are any omissions (or if you substantially disagree with anything I&#8217;ve included).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n<p>Andrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for one of my clients into how costs can be reduced, or quality increased, by increasing the extent to which testing is automated. As a first step, I am trying to develop a comprehensive list of test &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2006\/best-practices-in-test-automation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}