Record/Playback scripts are notoriously costly from a maintenance perspective.
- Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory (2009), Agile Testing (p. 315), Addison-Wesley Professional
if a recorder is used, "Record & Playback" should be changed to "Record → Refactor → Run". The 'Refactor' step is the process of changing the recorded test scripts into a maintainable form.
- Zhimin Zhan (2010), Practical Web Test Automation (2nd ed.), Leanpub.