Sometimes these are conveniently ignored. If we can work on getting answers to these, automation engineers( SDET’s) can relax a bit
1. Maintenance nightmares
2. How to simulate eyes/ears
3. Lack of consistency in automation GUID's
4. Non persistent automation GUID
5. Simulating ‘Real’ customers
6. Simulating N number of customers for performances
7. Test tools and infrastructure are not stable when needed to test a feature
8. Better End to End Automation
---Better End to End (customer scenario) Automation - test execution and authoring; How to get machines to do more of our work. How to determine what should or should not be automated.