So you are an almost only off-shore tester on a project, and want to automate some of your daily checks to have more time for actual testing. But you lack skills to do it right, or you think you do. And the automation tools and frameworks do not suddenly appear in a project. Somebody needs to implement them.
This picture is familiar to lots of us. But how can we push the deal out of this vicious circle? If not directly to a project's but for self-development sake?
We often hear the management saying: “We do not need automation at this point.”
And they are right!
They do not need an automation of those checks YOU PROPOSED, if it is done by YOU INSTEAD of the work you are hired for, especially in that weedy way YOU NOW would do it.
Whole disadvantage from their perspective!
Starting to write code is always hard and slow at the beginning, because the code quality is in direct proportion to an amount of hours one spent attentively staring at it. So here I propose the first points to look at start:
