Complete Guide to Test Automation: Techniques, Practices, and Patterns for Building and Maintaining Effective Software Projects

by Arnon Axelrod

Part 1: The "Why" and the "What".- Chapter 1: The Value of Test Automation.- Chapter 2: From Manual to Automated Testing.- Chapter 3: People and Tools.- Chapter 4: Reaching Full Coverage.- Chapter 5: Business Processes.- Chapter 6: Test Automation and Architecture.- Chapter 7: Isolation and Test Environments.- Chapter 8: The Big Picture.- Part 2: The "How".- Chapter 9: Preparing for the Tutorial.- Chapter 10: Designing the First Test Case.- Chapter 11: Start Coding the First Test.- Chapter 12: Completing the First Test.- Chapter 13: Investigating Failure.- Chapter 14: Adding More Tests.- Chapter 15: Continuous Integration.- Chapter 16: Acceptance Test Driven Development.- Chapter 17: Unit tests and TDD.- Chapter 18: Other Types of Automated Tests.- Chapter 19: Where to Go from Here.- Appendix Real-World Examples.- Appendix Cleanup Mechanism.- Appendix Test Automation Essentials.- Appendix Tips and Practices for Programmer's Productivity.-

Genres: Programming

560 pages, Paperback

Reviews

[Josh Larson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book provides excellent insights and practical advice on test automation, but is riddled with typos and grammatical errors. Also, the tutorial no longer works as described in the book. If you can push through these issues you’ll still get some very useful information, but it’s more difficult than it should be.

[Jeno · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't manage to launch the tutorial though hence I wasn't able to enjoy 100% of it, only the concepts but without any details.
Looks like the repo is no longer maintained.

[Tiago · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book for people wanting to learn more about testing automation. Though it's geared more towards automation developers, it has a ton for those who simply want to help drive the usage of automation in their organization.

The book covers how to structure teams to do automation, why to use automation, a sample of testing automation that you can implement alongside the author, concepts such as ttd and attd, and much more.

Highly recommended for those starting to work on testing automation or wanting to adopt testing automation.

[Sergio Antonio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book to have a big picture about Test Automation. It covers all important topics and gives a good guidance and examples about common scenarios in automation projects. Examples are implemented in C# but the general concepts are useful for other frameworks.

[Truong · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Jose Perez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful book, lots of good tips and strategies, but the practical part of the book isn't useful as the project isn't available anymore, nor the blog.

[Oleh · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first part of the book is a good summary of what test automation is. The practical part, however, was a let-down, since it's not working and can't be followed step-by-step. I did get some interesting ideas from reading the book but it could've been much more useful.

[Andreiqutz · Rating 1 out of 5]

Had high expectations from this book and was disappointed. Covers a lot of topics, but not getting into the details nor addressing core aspects of test automation. Talks a lot about tools and processes, different situations and project types without talking about risks of any type nor delivering take aways or key points to be used in practice.