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<div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block"><span style="font-size: 16px">Two issues could suggest patterns to help solve this kind of problem</span><br />  
 
<div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block"><span style="font-size: 16px">Two issues could suggest patterns to help solve this kind of problem</span><br />  
  
# <span style="font-size: 16px">[[MANUAL MIMICRY]]: if your scripts are complicated because they mimic manual test execution</span>
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# <span style="font-size: 16px">[[''MANUAL MIMICRY'']]: if your scripts are complicated because they mimic manual test execution</span>
# <span style="font-size: 16px">[[OBSCURE TESTS]]: if the scripts are not modular, undocumented and much too long</span>
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# <span style="font-size: 16px">[[''OBSCURE TESTS'']]: if the scripts are not modular, undocumented and much too long</span>
 
<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">Return to [[Refactoring the automation scripts]]</span></div>
 
<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">Return to [[Refactoring the automation scripts]]</span></div>

Revision as of 14:21, 30 June 2018

Two issues could suggest patterns to help solve this kind of problem
  1. ''MANUAL MIMICRY'': if your scripts are complicated because they mimic manual test execution
  2. ''OBSCURE TESTS'': if the scripts are not modular, undocumented and much too long

Return to Refactoring the automation scripts