What is the difference between scripting and automation?
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Scripting is telling the computer what to do in a pretty direct fashion.
Automation is generally differentiated by being specifically getting an application or applications that are designed to be used by humans to operate automatically, generally this is also achieved by a script just one running on a platform that supports GUI interaction.
Often the 2 are mixed together.
Automation is the concept of having a system do a task by itself that normally humans would have to do. This can be achieved many different ways.
Scripting is a specific technique that uses a predetermined firm set of instructions for a system to perform a given tasks. That system performs the same way everytime without regard for other inputs and variables. Programming is when the system will changes it’s behavior based on inputs.
A toaster that turns itself on when you put bread into it is automation. If it spits it back out after a predetermined amount of time every time, it’s automation via scripting. If it calculates the time need based on the amount of bread, type of bread, temperature of bread, temperature of the room, humidity of the room, or etc then it’s automation via programming.
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