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# <span style="font-size: 16px">[[SORCERER'S APPRENTICE SYNDROME]]: 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>
 
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Latest revision as of 14:22, 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