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

by Arnon Axelrod

Rely on this robust and thorough guide to build and maintain successful test automation. As the software industry shifts from traditional waterfall paradigms into more agile ones, test automation becomes a highly important tool that allows your development teams to deliver software at an ever-increasing pace without compromising quality.
Even though it may seem trivial to automate the repetitive tester’s work, using test automation efficiently and properly is not trivial. Many test automation endeavors end up in the “graveyard” of software projects. There are many things that affect the value of test automation, and also its costs. This book aims to cover all of these aspects in great detail so you can make decisions to create the best test automation solution that will not only help your test automation project to succeed, but also allow the entire software project to thrive. One of the most important details that affects the success of the test automation is how easy it is to maintain the automated tests. Complete Guide to Test Automation provides a detailed hands-on guide for writing highly maintainable test code.
What You’ll Learn

Who This Book Is For

Those involved with software development such as test automation leads, QA managers, test automation developers, and development managers. Some parts of the book assume hands-on experience in writing code in an object-oriented language (mainly C# or Java), although most of the content is also relevant for nonprogrammers.

Genres: Programming

558 pages, Paperback

Published September 23, 2018

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.

[Gene Ishchuk · 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Looks like the repo is no longer maintained.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.