We would like to protect our concrete huts from floods, earthquakes and neighboring countries (Sept 11 attacks) by building from foundation and solid pillars on top. Test automation projects also get attacked and mostly devastated in the wake of following reasons:
我們想通過建造地基和上面結實的柱子來保護我們的混凝土房子以擋住洪水，地震和鄰國的攻擊(9.11攻擊)。測試自動化項目也會被攻擊并且在以下的原因發生之后會被大部分破壞：
Low commitment from top management because of mis-matched expectations由于和期望不匹配導致來自最高管理層的低承諾
Test cycle delayed, so take out people from test automation projects to avoid jeopardizing release dates.測試周期延期了，因此從測試自動化項目中抽出一些人以避免危害到發布日期
Development cycle skids, but you still want to deliver the product as per the promised date, skip (or) do less testing which results in wiping out test automation project.開發周期減速了，但是你仍然想在許諾的日子里交付產品，忽略（或）少作些測試，然而那導致徹底毀滅了測試自動化項目。
Effort for test automation is under estimated because of the lack of test automation tool expertise which ends up killing test automation project由于缺乏那些測試自動化工具技術，測試自動化的工作量被低估了，最終害死了測試自動化項目
Mis-fit of the test automation tool with the application under test results in not able to automate the critically and most generally used features of the application and thus loosing the faith in test automation測試自動化工具和所測應用程序的不適宜導致不能自動化程序中關鍵的和最常用的功能，并因此失去了對測試自動化的信心。
……If you would like to see your test automation projects finishing with celebrations, make sure that you do you homework on the foundation and pillars.
如果你想看見你的測試自動化項目以慶祝的方式結束，那么確信你在地基和柱子上做了準備工作。
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