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Practical working label — agree its meaning within your project
Automation Test is a piece of code that invokes an existing automation with known inputs and checks the outputs against expected results. It is executed automatically during continuous integration.
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When to use automation test
Write a test whenever the automation interacts with external APIs or modifies persistent data.
A practical example of automation test
Suppose a test harness triggers the email‑sender script with a mock address list and asserts that a log entry records two sent messages.
How it applies to Ideoreto
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Key takeaways
- Run the test suite and ensure the automation test returns a pass status.
- Check that the test logs include the expected output verification lines.
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