The Five Layers of Test Automation, and How to Find Your Own Gap

When most people say “test automation,” they mean browser tests, but unit, API, performance, and security testing are all automation too, and each catches bugs the others can’t. There’s no trustworthy industry benchmark for how to split effort across them, so this video shows a simple way to find the gaps in your own team’s coverage using your own production incidents. 00:00 The Car Test Drive Analogy for Test Automation 01:10 Unit Tests 01:35 API and Contract Testing 02:36 Load and Performance Testing 03:09 Security Testing 04:09 Browser Testing 06:06 Where to focus? 07:08 Example walkthrough 09:13 Work practise 09:41 How to Identify Your Testing Gaps 11:25 Prioritizing Gaps and Incremental Improvements 11:52 Convincing Leadership with Real Data 13:05 Building a Continuous Testing Improvement Habit