Are You Treating Your Testers Like Robots

I agree with this 100%. I am currently in a situation where management is gung ho on automating testing and we are still deciding functionality. This is a startup that will no doubt change paths many times in the next 6 months. Since I'm merely a pion, I will do what's asked, and hopefully, it won't waste too much money. I tried to explain why we should wait but they seem to "know" more than the person that has been doing this for well over 15 years. 

Great post, mate! Automation is all about simplifying things and cutting down on human effort. The only place where most organizations, especially software testing companies struggle is integrating and sustaining automation into the process. It is important to understand what tasks must be automated and where human creativity must be allowed to jump in.  

Thanks for the amazing post!