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Test automation can turn into a real pain in the neck if a designated team is in charge of it or if the automators work on it as a separate project. In this article, Lisa Crispin seconds Bob Jones’s recent call for whole-team test automation and elaborates on the dangers of relegating test automation to an isolated project rather than integrating it into the overall software development process.  

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Whole-team Test Automation: Making the Move
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Having someone on your test team with automation knowledge can be helpful. However, spreading that knowledge across the team can improve the individual testers, the project, and the test team as a whole. In this article, Bob Jones explains why his team first tried whole-team test automation and offers some tips for implementing it on your team.

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