On 2010-08-10 21:57 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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<abe9b308-db83-4ca8-a71a-12d2025a7...@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Alex
Barna wrote:

On Aug 10, 10:05 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Can’t understand the point to it. “GUI automation” is a contradiction in
terms, because a GUI is designed for use by humans to do manual tasks,
not ones that can be automated.

Automating GUI is for testing.

But the most egregious GUI problems are going to be with humans being unable
to figure out how to do something, am I right?

Possibly, but it's not the *only* important problem. Automated GUI testing is usually a form of regression testing. You want to make sure that the behavior of parts of the GUI did not change when you made what should be unrelated modifications to the code.

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