My developer chums
and I use Watir as part of our test-driven development. As such, we're
giddy to be able to finally write unit tests for the UI. But
the presence of these developer written UI test scripts raises
questions about what impact, if any, they will have on what our QA engineer will
focus on. It's tempting to suggest that there is a whole set of
functionality that they simply don't have to test manually anymore. But
clearly this is just wrong, wrong, wrong. The developers will only
write tests for the things they think of, and we all know that developers
tend to be optimistic about their code. In addition, the unit tests
themselves can have flaws that cause a test to pass when the code is not,
in fact, functioning properly.
So, it seems
that we still need the QA engineer to do a full manual QA pass on the
software. At what point do these scripts allieviate some of the
QA engineer's manual testing
burden?
Thanks for your
thoughts,
-=michael=-
--
Michael Kelly
Sr. Software Engineer
Eleven Wireless Inc. - The Possibilities are
Wireless
http://www.elevenwireless.com
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