{"id":641,"date":"2012-10-12T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2012-10-12T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T03:00:19","slug":"a-reminder-on-what-not-do-when-youre-automating-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/a-reminder-on-what-not-do-when-youre-automating-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder on what not do when you&#8217;re automating testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago I wrote, somewhat flippantly, on automation failure, but apparently some people never noticed. \u00a0It still seems relevant, so please go and read (or re-read) &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/automate-your-way-to-ineffective-testing-with-my-twelve-step-program\/\">Automate your way to ineffective testing with my twelve step program\u2026<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago I wrote, somewhat flippantly, on automation failure, but apparently some people never noticed. \u00a0It still seems relevant, so please go and read (or re-read) &#8216;Automate your way to ineffective testing with my twelve step program\u2026&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategy","category-test-automation","category-test-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}