When Should a Test Be Automated? 16

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Brian Marick

Testing Foundations
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As another example, the way the interface tells the user of an input error might change.Instead of a popup dialog box, it might cause the main program window to flash red and have the sound card play that annoying "your call cannot be completed as dialed" tone.The test, which looks for a popup dialog, should consider the new correct action a bug. It is effectively dead.