“Software testers should behave like programmers with their testing script and use the same tools and practices” Why would you ask a tester to do this? Why not just have dev perform this?

While many of the technical skills and actions or tasks performed by dev and auto testers might be similar on the surface, automation testing should, in my opinion be performed with a somewhat different mind set and different goals and objectives in mind.

“The reality is that creating and managing a software testing infrastructure requires the same skills than programming” while scripting and coding languages might be required, they achieve different outcomes and are not comparable from my experience.