Effective Software Test Automation: Developing an Automated Software Testing Tool

by Kanglin Li, Sybex, Mengqi Wu

"If you'd like a glimpse at how the next generation is going to program, this book is a good place to start."
—Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobbs Journal (October 2004) Build Your Own Automated Software Testing Tool Whatever its claims, commercially available testing software is not automatic. Configuring it to test your product is almost as time-consuming and error-prone as purely manual testing. There is an alternative that makes both engineering and economic building your own, truly automatic tool. Inside, you'll learn a repeatable, step-by-step approach, suitable for virtually any development environment. Code-intensive examples support the book's instruction, which includes these key Effective Software Test Automation goes well beyond the building of your own testing it also provides expert guidance on deploying it in ways that let you reap the greatest earlier detection of coding errors, a smoother, swifter development process, and final software that is as bug-free as possible. Written for programmers, testers, designers, and managers, it will improve the way your team works and the quality of its products.

400 pages, Paperback

First published February 19, 2004

Reviews

[Aquarium · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, I was expecting more abstract book like http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63... but got a "how to" book. So, I did not like it. But the book contains a lot of example code and instructions so it may be helpful for beginner programmers-testers.