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February 15, 2005
Hey Vendors, Give Us Real Scripting Languages
Bret Pettichord wrote an article about how traditional automated testing tools force their users to use a proprietary language to automate their tests. He makes a lot of great points about the downside of using these proprietary languages (vendorscript) for test automation:
- they undermine collaboration between development and testing teams since developers use real programming languages while the test team is left with vendorscript
- vendorscript often lack basic library functions that are present in real programming languages
- no third party books/documentation is available for the vendorscript
- it's hard to find experienced people that are proficient in the vendorscript
Posted by Misha Rybalov at February 15, 2005 05:15 PM