Why scripted automation keeps missing the failures that actually cost you users — and what testing like a real person looks like.
Every engineering team has lived this. CI is green on Friday. You ship. Monday morning there's a one-star review, a support ticket, and a Slack thread that starts with "wait, how did this get through?"
The uncomfortable answer is that nothing got through. Your tests did exactly what they were written to do. That's the problem.
A script only checks the path someone thought to write
Scripted automation — Appium, Selenium, a Playwright suite — executes a predicted path perfectly. Tap this, assert that, move on. It's fast, it's repeatable, and within its lane it's genuinely useful.
