Over the past several years there have been numerous articles
done on various approaches to test automation. Anyone who has read a fair,
unbiased sampling of these knows that we cannot and mustnot
expect pure capture and replay of test scripts to be successful for the life of
a product. We will find nothing but frustration there.
Sometimes this manifesto is hard to explain to people who
have not yet performed significant test automation with these capture\replay
tools. But it usually takes less than a week, often less than a day, to hear the
most repeated phrase: "It worked when I recorded it, but now it fails when I
play it back!"