{"id":76,"date":"2008-07-27T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quinert.com\/blog\/xml-rss2.php?itemid=76"},"modified":"2008-07-27T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T07:00:30","slug":"a-first-step-toward-saying-what-we-mean-when-we-say-automated-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2008\/07\/27\/a-first-step-toward-saying-what-we-mean-when-we-say-automated-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"A first step toward saying what we mean when we say &quot;Automated testing&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the universe, nothing can be said to be automatic, as nothing can be said to be without design. An imperfect parallel may be found in human inventions; springs may move springs, and wheels, indexes; but the motion and the regulation must be derived from the artist;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=0JcAAAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=humphry+davy&amp;as_brr=1&amp;vq=automatic&amp;pg=PA100&amp;ci=166,1034,835,306&amp;source=bookclip\">Elements of Chemical Philosophy Part 1, Vol.1 By Humphry Davy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the second step will be taking my automation or testing tools course (plug, plug).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the universe, nothing can be said to be automatic, as nothing can be said to be without design. An imperfect parallel may be found in human inventions; springs may move springs, and wheels, indexes; but the motion and the regulation must be derived from the artist;&#8221; From Elements of Chemical Philosophy Part 1, Vol.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,30,34,36],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-humanising-work","category-software-testing","category-test-automation","category-test-tools","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}