Automation Testing and Validation Questions

Covers testing and validation practices specifically for automation artifacts and automated workflows. Topics include validating automated solutions before production deployment, version control and code review for automation code and infrastructure definitions, monitoring automation jobs and handling failures gracefully, documenting automation for team learning, and managing technical debt in automation. Also covers the distinctions and trade offs between automation and manual testing, when to automate versus when to perform exploratory or manual testing, and strategies for continuously improving existing automation suites and identifying new opportunities for automation.