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Make a maintenance plan

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Make a maintenance plan

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- Test automation is an ongoing process and maintenance will be a huge portion of that process. The three main parts of maintenance include adding new tests, updating old tests and fixing failures. New features in a software development project will require that new tests be added. For the individuals working on the new functionality, discuss how it will be tested and what types of tests will be created. Applications change over time and tests can get out of date. It is necessary to keep things updated no matter the reason. Sometimes tests will need new test data or a different assertion to validate the results. Other times a test should be deleted if it's no longer relevant or the feature it's testing has changed completely. It's also inevitable that tests will fail for various reasons. Since the build must always be green, it's important that there be a plan of action for those tests not passing. If there's a random…

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