• A concept by which unit tests, service tests, and user interface tests, when drawn in comparison to their desired number and suspected cost (from many cheap unit tests to few expensive user interface tests), form a pyramid. The test automation pyramid is attributed to Mike Cohn, who wrote about it in 2009.

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