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Sara Ford was a Microsoft Developer Evangelist for Northern California. Previously, she was the Program Manager for CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting site. Prior to CodePlex, she worked on the Visual Studio team. In 2008, she authored her first book Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Microsoft Press and donated all her royalties to start a scholarship fund for Hurricane Katrina survivors of her hometown. Her life-long dream is to become a 97 year old weightlifter, so she can be featured on the local news. Visit Sara's blog for more information about Sara and her software testing views: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saraford

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Automation Testing versus Manual Testing Guidelines

Tuesday October 26th 2010 11am 22 8 Comments Automation Test and QA Testing

I met with my team’s automation experts a few weeks back to get their input on when to automate and when to manually test. The general rule of thumb has always been to use common sense. If you’re only going to run the test one or two times or the test is really expensive to automation, it is most likely a manual test. But then again, what good is saying “use common sense” when you need to come up with deterministic set of guidelines on how and when to automate?

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