Let’s say your organization has now a stable set of manual testcases that is used for regression every time your product releases. As you are aware this set keeps on increasing and soon you are seeing that the regression test cycle is weighing down on your product release timelines. In these days of Agile practices, the obvious next place you look at is to automate testing such that regression cycle is shortened. This is not the only benefit of automation, but we will leave that discussion to some other time. Also for purpose of this discussion, we will concentrate on GUI automation tools. So if you are responsible for GUI automation, the very first question that will come up is
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