Automated story-based acceptance tests lead to unmaintainable systems

Projects where the team directly translates story-level acceptance criteria into new automated test cases set themselves up for a maintenance nightmare. It seems like an old approach (I’m thinking WinRunner-like record-play back scripts), although at least the teams probably feel the pain faster. Unfortunately not many teams seem to know what to do. It sounds … Continue reading Automated story-based acceptance tests lead to unmaintainable systems