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Before The Code: First Steps to Automation in Testing
One of the hottest topics today in software testing is automation. Why is that? Because of multiple reasons ranging from using a tool to perform the mundane tasks to improving a team's ability to produce reliable and stable software quickly. But the common mistake testers and companies make is jumping in blindly by just grabbing a tool and scripting everything as fast as they can. This just leads to flaky tests, hard to maintain automation code, and failure. They make the mistake of putting the cart before the horse.
This book focuses on the front-end processes — the work involved in implementing and maintaining test automation and emphasizing a tool agnostic mindset. The information is based on multiple years of work experience using many different tools with a wide range of application & development technologies. This information comes from my experiences in the Software Testing Trenches.
This book focuses on the front-end processes — the work involved in implementing and maintaining test automation and emphasizing a tool agnostic mindset. The information is based on multiple years of work experience using many different tools with a wide range of application & development technologies. This information comes from my experiences in the Software Testing Trenches.
152 pages, ebook
First published March 7, 2019
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April 22, 2021
This book seems to be aimed at a person charged with setting up a test automation team or lab and covers most of the things such a person would need to know. It would actually be more beneficial if that person's manager read the book, but we all know that won't happen. One thing that sets it apart from many similar books is that it includes simple cost calculations for both people and hardware choices.
The book is packed with information and it's apparent that the author is both very technically skilled and also good at explaining. I would, however, advice against reading the book in too large chunks since it's quite condensed. That is a good thing.
There is of course more to know than can be covered in a 152 page book, but you get an introduction and enough keywords to investigate further.
Editing
The book was formatted as a paper book with different margins for left and right pages, which doesn't look as good when reading it page by page on an electronic device. I would also have preferred the references as footnotes instead of endnotes, making it easier to lookup the references. Having said that, even though the book seams to be self-published, the editing is more than impressive.
The book is packed with information and it's apparent that the author is both very technically skilled and also good at explaining. I would, however, advice against reading the book in too large chunks since it's quite condensed. That is a good thing.
There is of course more to know than can be covered in a 152 page book, but you get an introduction and enough keywords to investigate further.
Editing
The book was formatted as a paper book with different margins for left and right pages, which doesn't look as good when reading it page by page on an electronic device. I would also have preferred the references as footnotes instead of endnotes, making it easier to lookup the references. Having said that, even though the book seams to be self-published, the editing is more than impressive.
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