Some thoughts on test automation
I found an old piece of paper from ~2014 that had some bullet points on testing philosophy I had back then, mostly to help myself articulate things in interviews. Reading through the list I still believe a lot of them, but others not so much or I have more qualifications. Let's look at them, elaborate, and add some thoughts not present then.* Code should be designed for testing -- create hooks/test points (if hardware) if necessary. Want to facilitate "white-box" testing.
Mostly makes sense to me. This has larger implications though depending on language and test type and how exactly you're designing for tests. The very worst design idea is to have code like "isRunningTests()", and to make worst worse have code inside such blocks doing things like "getTestContext().getProperty("blah")" to use for the code instead of whatever the real thing was.
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