Cut down Pesticide Paradox in your test automation

Sajitha Pathirana
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3 min readDec 4, 2021

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Let’s first see what is pesticide paradox is. I have extracted the definition and explanation from the ISTQB foundation level syllabus.

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“If the same tests are repeated over and over again, eventually these tests no longer find any new defects. To detect new defects, existing tests and test data may need changing, and new tests may need to be written. (Tests are no longer

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Sajitha Pathirana
Webtips

A Test automation enthusiast, passionate to help the teams to enhance their testing journey with his decade of experience in the field.