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Selenium creator and Sauce founder here. Not enough automated e2e is also a nightmare. (Ask me about my experience helping to fix HealthCare.gov sometime!) As usual, the right answer is: a little bit of every kind of test, depending on the risks involved. The article starts (and ends) quite hyperbolic, but comes to the same "everything in moderation" conclusion.

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I'd actually be extremely interested in hearing more about your experiences with HealthCare.gov. I'm working on implementing test infrastructure for my current employer and would love to learn from folks more experienced than myself about the process!

Thanks for taking the bait. :-) I don't have time to write about it today, but hope to someday. Since this won't be the last time the government creates a website, the government needs to get good at this stuff. The tech team did an amazing job rescuing the site, and I hope the geeky lessons (especially from the testing perspective) get shared someday.

I'll keep my eyes peeled, then!

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