Support Forums: Message List - Succeeding with Agile while treating record-playback tools with scorn http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Wed, 22 May 2013 21:44:58 -0400 Brittle http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64393 When I said that end-to-end tests (or GUI tests) were no more brittle than unit tests it was in the context of using something like Google Web Driver, which is probably less brittle than record-playback.

...]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 11:43:15 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 11:43:15 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 11:43:15 -0400 May 2, 2012 Dean Schulze 0 Why did Fowler waited so long to dismiss record-playback tools http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64393 ...]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 09:55:57 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 09:55:57 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 09:55:57 -0400 May 2, 2012 Choudary Kothapalli 0 Brittle http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64393 "These tests are no more brittle than unit tests"

...]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 04:49:25 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 04:49:25 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 04:49:25 -0400 May 2, 2012 Dean Chapman 1 Succeeding with Agile while treating record-playback tools with scorn http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64393 OK, I'll bite.  We need more activity here on TSS anyway.

...]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 23:12:32 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 23:12:32 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 23:12:32 -0400 May 1, 2012 Dean Schulze 2 Succeeding with Agile while treating record-playback tools with scorn http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64393 In his May 1st posting, Martin Fowler argues against the long-term usefulness of GUI based test automation.

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