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by wizzwizz4
949 days ago
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The tools are very useful, and they have well-known capability. That capability is strictly less than the capability of most manual testers / QA staff, but it's a lot faster at it, and gets much closer to being exhaustive. Automation should mean you can do a better job, more efficiently, more easily. Unfortunately, ever since the Industrial Revolution, it seems to mean you can do a quicker job with less money spent on labour costs. |
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That's if you put the effort in to write good tests. When I look at the state of gaming in general, it's ... pretty obvious that this hasn't worked out. Or the GTA Online JSON debacle - I'm dead sure that this was known internally for a long time, but no one dared to modify it.
And even then: an automated test can't spot other issues unrelated to the test that a human would spot immediately. Say, a CSS bug causes the logo to be displayed in grayscale. The developer who has accidentally placed the filter on all img elements writes a testcase that checks if an img element in content is rendered in greyscale, the tests pass, the branch gets merged without further human review... and boom.