Which flows are worth automating?
Automate the critical path and the failures that hurt most. On a two-week timeline, skip the rest.
After the critical flow, cover failures
Once the critical flow has a test, add one or two failure paths: the form that should show an error, the redirect that should not happen. Everything else waits.
In my app [describe it], which one or two failure paths would cause the most user confusion or data loss if I left them untested?
For my app [describe it] on a two-week timeline, list the flows I should automate first and the ones I should explicitly skip, with one reason each.
Three tests you trust beat twenty you keep commented out. Automate the critical flow first, then the failures that hurt most.
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