The Goal
The Goal I wanted to start a blog to discuss tools, processes and techniques for automation. I hope that all my topics will work together to help you build an automated system. What is automation? According to dictionary.com automation is: the technique, method, or system of operating or controlling a process by highly automatic means, as by electronic devices, reducing human intervention to a minimum. What does this mean to me? To me, automation is anything that allows us to do something faster in a more automated fashion. In my definition, automation is anything that helps us accomplish less input, provides more consistency and produces more reliability. Automation should have freed us from a portion or all of a task, so we can concentrate our efforts elsewhere. I like a more vague definition: as we can start out by creating easy scripts, that can eventually lead to a textbook version of automation. It is also common to use over engineered programs, when simple process...