The biggest problems for manual testers learning test automation?

[Daragh]

What are the common pitfalls that you have seen for new testers?

[Melvin]

For new testers the common pitfalls that I have seen are:

– Start to test without a good understanding of the requirements.
– Not to cover a complete range of scenarios from a user perspective.
– Difficulty to share steps to reproduce issues with developers.
– Duplicate efforts on certain issues that has not been implemented yet.
– Don’t have automated tests in place for features that were already tested.
– etc.

I did some of them myself when I was starting as a tester!

[Archana]

Adding to the list…

Not being able to dig further into an issue to isolate a problem
Not understanding the importance of documentation
Dealing with rejected defects
Unable to get your point across to the developers

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