QA & Software Testing
Manual vs Automation
6 practice questions. Free questions open a full answer guide; the rest unlock with Pro.
- A teammate suggests automating the entire test suite to eliminate manual testing. How would you respond?
- Your end-to-end UI test suite has become flaky — passing and failing without code changes. How do you diagnose and reduce the flakiness?Go Pro
- Walk me through how you'd build the business case for investing in test automation when the work it competes with is shipping features. How do you decide where automation pays off and where it doesn't?Go Pro
- How do you decide whether a given test should be automated or done manually?Go Pro
- When deciding whether to automate a given test or keep it manual, what factors do you weigh?Go Pro
- A manager pushes to 'automate all our testing' to move faster. As a senior engineer, how do you decide what to actually automate versus keep manual, and how do you push back on the all-or-nothing framing?Go Pro
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