“Automation is not finding bugs” a question I got,<\/p>\n

My answer – “Is automation supposed to capture bugs?”<\/p>\n

“I speak clearly, I think clearly” Michael Bolton..<\/p>\n

Since often we call it Test Automation, the assumption is this ‘testing’ should report bugs<\/p>\n

In reality automation is not ‘testing’, it’s ‘checking’, therefore it will not always capture bugs<\/p>\n

However, automation does free up tester’s time to do more testing and capture bugs<\/p>\n

The bug capturing will be done by tester’s for the most part, not automated scripts<\/p>\n

Not to say automation will not capture bugs at all,<\/p>\n

Rather, it should occasionally capture issues and provide confidence in our application’s stability<\/p>\n

More on this plus about data generation for automation here:<\/p>\n