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IBM's John Jackson advises companies to skip the script and instead conduct disaster recovery tests on a moment's notice.

The (narrow but very important) problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.

Imagine typing out a series of steps in plain English that would reflect a list of actions a human QA tester would undertake to test an app, then turning that list into an automated testing script.

Columnist Daniel Gilbert wasn't satisfied with AdWords' native A/B testing capabilities, so he and his team wrote a script.