QA · Junior · Theory

How do you decide which tests are worth automating and which are better left manual?

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This checks whether the candidate understands that automation is an investment with a payback, not a goal in itself, and can separate checks where the machine wins (repetition, volume, stability) from those where a human is needed (exploration, perception, one-off tasks).

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test automation test strategy

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