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As the New Year dawns, it will bring the promises of a brighter tomorrow. May the Supreme Divinity shower blessings upon you, in this brilliant New Year, filled with promises. May you, your champions and your family, explore new adventures, step on new roads and achieve new milestones and new heights.

Most testers consider UI testing as the Achilles' hell of automated testing and often just stick to manual testing for UI. There is no doubt that UI testing does have its challenges. It has complex workflows, is relatively much slower than Unit Tests and also is more brittle.

"If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess." (Rod Michael) Virtually all software development projects today contain an element of test automation. If an initiative is not already underway chances are there is one under consideration. The software engineering groups are generally convinced of the benefits - greater test coverage achieved faster being the most apparent.

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other." Bill Gates Gates' statement has never been truer than it is today. So much of business strategy today is dictated by what is possible to do with the technology of the day.

A skilled QA tester knows that the most important part of the role is perhaps the ability to create effective bugs. A bug is not useful to the testing process if it is not reproducible and properly documented.