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Cure for ATDD

Does your automation test suite suffer from Automated Test Deficit Disorder (ATDD)? Are your automated tests often ridiculed because they:

• Cannot complete a task?
• Are object-focus challenged?
• Are self-destructive and do not produce meaningful results?
• Feel as if they cannot get sufficient host-CPU attention?
• Stare at windows for extended periods of time?
• Are ever-fearful of going straight to blue-screen hell?
• Feel as if they are in a constant gooey mess of learning phase?

You are not alone and there is hope.

Retryalia ^tm and Recoveratin ^tm in combination may be right for treating ATDD symptoms in your automation test suite, providing you adaptability and recoverability benefits. Retryalia ^tm in 187 of 200 computerinical trials proved effective at countering the effects of object-focus-loss and windows-fixation, thus reducing the rate of incomplete tasks. Retryalia ^tm should not be used in treating automated tests directed at applications using __VIEWSTATES, as network death is certain.

Recoveratin ^tm in 196 of 200 computerinical trials proved effective at countering null or useless automation test results for an application-under-test (AUT) borne of hasty and otherwise sloppy and inflated ego-driven application design and development practices. Specifically in these situations Recoveratin ^tm proved effective at countering both blue-screen hell fears and gooey mess. Speak to your management and recommend organization-wide training before using Recoveratin ^tm in your automation test suite. Recoveratin ^tm in your automation test suite will auto-file defect reports and reject applications not thoroughly development- tested and prematurely thrown over the wall. In these situations Recoveratin will profile AUT source code and via email automatically broadcast profiling results, and - recommend source code changes to your entire organization. Also in these situations Recoveratin ^tm has been known to locate and publicize source code on how-not-to project-manage, how-not-to-design and how-not-to-develop application websites.

Recoveratin ^tm computerinical trials showed no added benefit for automated tests in organizations which promote sound project management and application design and development practices.  

What are the causes of ATDD or Automated Test Deficit Disorder?

ATDD in most cases is a mere but costly misguided perception leading to the belief that the automated tests are at fault and incorrect. ATDD is usually triggered by poor organizational practices. Those poor practices drive misconceptions of automated testing. Of the many delusions suffered by management, one will find silver-bullet perceptions, notions that it-is-just-record-and-playback, and any-monkey-can-do-it mindsets. ATDD is also caused by unskilled automation-tool implementers. In situations where ATDD is the result of deceptive and unskilled automators, Recoveratin will simply lock out the test-automator and to the test-automator, recommend a new job matching the would-be automator’s skills-of-deception, such as bonus-administrator at AIG.

In those very common situations where management delusions are bountiful and the AUT is clearly one which commands very low-levels of organizational pride, another benefit of Recoveratin ^tm is triggered. In those situations Recoveratin ^tm is known to change perceptions and counter delusions. Recoveratin ^tm will automatically administer Boostaplatformalis ^tm.  Boostaplatformalis ^tm is intended to enable, optimize and showcase deserving robust automation test suites and redirect the undue blame-driven scrutiny to the root cause – the AUT and the processes and practices (or lack thereof) which produced the application. With a periodic injection of Boostaplatformalis ^tm your automation test suite will perform effortlessly and not be the subject of undeserving scrutiny.

How does Boostaplatformalis ^tm work? Boostaplatformalis ^tm gathers intelligence about your entire organization and its network topology. Boostaplatformalis ^tm will use this intelligence to adapt itself and optimize its execution speed and programmatical correctness such that the AUT deficiencies and issues are always obvious.

What are some ways in which Boostaplatformalis ^tm works? Boostaplatformalis ^tm with its network topology intelligence, will automatically provision and order maximum bandwidth for itself – charging back to R&D. Boostaplatformalis ^tm will also order upgrades to network appliances and automatically create appropriate emails, service requests and work orders along the way. Boostaplatformalis ^tm will also order new automation test suite hosts to replace non-Mac hosts, or upgrades to existing hosts in the interest of eliminating automation test platform host security and performance issues, again charging back to R&D. If the new Mac automation test hosts have to be backordered, Boostaplatformalis ^tm will order Mac logos to serve as a placebo for the existing automation test platform hosts until Mac backorders can be filled.

 Let your automation test suite stand tall, proud, and erect.

 Order your Boostaplatformalis ^tm today!

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