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366: Test Automation with Arnon Axelrod

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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The Main Benefits of Test Automation and Continuous Integration

The main benefit of test automation is the fast feedback that it gives to the developers. And if you also have high code coverage, or high coverage, then you can easily refactor the code and improve its internal structure and quality as we go forward. If we don't have big enough code coverage of automated tests, then it will be very risky to change the design of the code because we can introduce new bugs. But if we have fast feedback of high Coverage, then we can do it very safely and easily in an agile process. It helps keep the developer branch in good shape to avoid most bugs as you can in the first place.

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