Automation vs. manual testing

- [Presenter] This course advertises training for automated testing. Since you're already taking the course, I can assume you already buying into the idea that automation is a valuable skill or concept. But let's take a few minutes to examine why this is in some clear and concrete ways. First, let's talk about what automation even is. I know that we all have an idea of this however vague, automation is robots or software, doing things over and over again so that humans don't have to. Indeed the word automatic comes from two Greek words. That together means something which can will, drive or act by itself. This doesn't imply of course that anything which is automatic is somehow intelligent just that given the right setup, instruction and context it can perform actions on its own without human intervention or with minimal human intervention. Humans have been trying to get out of doing things by hand for a very long time.…