Myths and silly Viewpoints about Test Automation

1. Test automation is just spending money without return
2. Automated testing is always profitable. Test automation fits to any kind of project
3. Unit testing is better and finds more defects then functional automated testing
4. Record-playback is automated testing
5. Any person with IT background can be auto tester
6. It's easy to combine both manual and automate dtesting in a single role person
7. Test automation ROI is impossible to predict and calculate
8. Test automation estimation is not real activity
9. Test automation completely differs from s/w development
10. Bad developer can be good enough for automation
11. Developers can effectively develop functional auto tests
12. Auto testing is not about QA
13. Auto testing should not be a part of overall QA and QC
14. Manual testing coverage is preferable on any project/functionality and any project phase
15. Nobody should rely on automated testing
16. It's impossible to create robust and efficient auto testing at all
17. Everything can be automated
18. Is auto testing a sort of machine intelligence? Though, I don't trust that
19. Test automation should be capable to predict any system and environmental outcomes. Whatever issue occur - auto test suite should remove a problem and/or think out a new workflow path, recovery scenario, invent workaround from a scratch
20. Test automation is about writing a few code lines which result in testing major functionality. It's easy!

I wish to hear more myths and strange points you ever met on test automation. Let's share yours here commenting to this post.