{"id":173260,"date":"2025-02-18T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/testing-is-more-about-setup-than-scripts-testing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:53:00","slug":"testing-is-more-about-setup-than-scripts-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/testing-is-more-about-setup-than-scripts-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing is more about setup than scripts  #testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X3ZXg1cyUd0?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1&#038;hl=en\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Scripting is not the biggest time investment in test automation. 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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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in our blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.octomind.dev\/blog\/testing-is-more-about-setup-than-scripts\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.octomind.dev\/blog\/testing-is-more-about-setup-than-scripts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; abstractions, system design, data seeding, environment concerns, authentication, just to name a few. 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