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What Came
Before
the Test
Automation?
by TJ Johnson
TJ Johnson is AVP, Legal Sector
Strategist at Qualitest (www.
qualitestgroup.com). She has great fun
focusing on "StrategicIT" – looking at
innovation, internally and for clients,
and thought leadership around new
ways to help clients deliver successful
projects. TJ has deep experience
in legal technology. A familiar and
well-respected figure in the legal
technology industry, TJ worked
in various capacities for law firms
and legal departments. Most known
for her recent role on the executive
team of ILTA (International Legal
Technology Association) where she led
the strategy development and execution
of ILTA's global portfolio of events,
was instrumental in growing their
premier conference, ILTACON, and was
responsible for the vison and execution
of many strategic projects.
H
ow did legal
organizations who have
automated their manual
testing decide that's what
they should do? How did
they decide how much to automate or that
they should have an outside organization do
the test automation for them?
To be clear, we're focusing on Test
Automation, which is the use of software
separate from the software being tested,
to control the execution of tests and the
comparison of actual outcomes with
predicted outcomes. It is about running tests
automatically instead of manually, managing
