Scripting is not the biggest time investment in test automation. Set-up is.
A detail many autonomous testing tools forget.

Any seasoned test automation engineer will tell you that the real complexity is in all things around test scripts – abstractions, system design, data seeding, environment concerns, authentication, just to name a few.

Creating automation scripts is a task that many autonomous testing companies jump on to (usually prompting LLMs) with varying degrees of success.

Autonomous testing has to provide proper context for the environment under test. Not only the URL of the application under test, but data seeds, environment variables and other settings are what tackles the test automation as a whole.

Read more in our blog: https://www.octomind.dev/blog/testing-is-more-about-setup-than-scripts