Automated tests ideally don't entirely replace manually executed tests. What they do replace is repetitive regression tests that don't need to be executed manua

Automated tests ideally don't entirely replace manually executed tests. What they do replace is repetitive regression tests that don't need to be executed manually. In an ideal world this opens up room for exploratory testing where someone goes "off-script" and focuses specifically on those areas that are not covered by your automated tests. The thing is that automated tests aren't really tests, even though we call them that. They are automated checks at specified points, so they only check the outcome at those point in time. So yeah, they are also completely blind from the sort of thing a human* might easily spot while using the application. *Just to be ahead of the AI bros, we are not there yet, hold your horses.