I'm trying to expand Automation Testing (using Tools). However Technical staff are pointing to negative articles on fagility of UI testing is not the way forward. However if you set out Automtion Standards on how to use xpaths or giving unique names to screen elements this then changes how fagile tests are. Of course if you consistently have screen redesign happening then you would not want to automated. I would like a few articles that support Automation using tools like ranorex or test complete but not from the companies themselves that I can reference in the purposal.
Thank you
Michelle
Michelle, if your application UI is still going thru lot of changes then ur tech team is right. Such automation scenarios should be kept aside for later.
Till then you can automate few other scenarios like,
API or webservice scenarios
Database scenarios
Scenarios where UI is stable
Smoke scenarios
Only when automation scripts show immediate value, management will appreciate the effort going into it.
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