Anton Smirnov - Practical Tips and Tricks for Selenium Test Automation

One of the engineers decides to take care of it (or gets assigned) using the tools they are familiar with; they automate the first bunch of tests. Since initially, it s a proof of concept, some things are being implemented via the fastest and most obvious solution, which is not always utilizing the industry s best practices. Such solutions introduce technical debt. If not addressed early, the impact of technical debt grows once the framework is expanded. As a result, few iterations later, the team gets a test automation framework that can pretty well-run tests that were in the mind of the author building it. But making a step aside, expanding coverage to additional features, or trying to get other engineers owning tests creation via such framework becomes a challenging task.

Have you ever wondered how to set up a test automation framework? Well, in this book you will learn about everything you ll need to successfully create such a framework. We re going to look at the pros and cons of preconfigured testing environments and those that are created dynamically.

This book does not aim to fully disclose the entire subject area with all its nuances, so do not take it as a textbook or Handbook for decades of development testing has accumulated such a volume of data that its formal presentation is not enough, and a dozen books. Also, reading just this one book is not enough to become a "senior automated testing engineer". Then why do we need this book?
First, this book is worth reading if you are determined to engage in automated testing it will be useful as a "beginner" and have some experience in automation. Secondly, this book can and should be used as reference material. Thirdly, this book a kind of "map", which has links to many external sources of information (which can be useful even

From time to time, I use a learning approach and try to chew all the approaches and build the stages step by step. Some people more experienced in software test automation also having may find it slow, boring, and monotonous. This book is intended for people who first approach the creation of an automation testing framework, especially if their goal is to add automation to their test approach. First of all, I wrote this book for a tester with experience in the field of manual software testing, the purpose of which is to move to a higher level in the tester career. Summary: We can safely say that this book is a kind of guide for beginners in the field of automation software testing.

I also have quite a lot of experience building automation on a project from scratch. I have repeatedly had to develop and implement the framework of testing automation on projects. The learning approach focuses on a huge chunk of theory on building the automation testing framework. The book also discusses the theory of test automation in detail. However, the direction of automation to support testing is no longer limited to testing, so this book is suitable for anyone who wants to improve the use of automation: managers, business analysts, users, and, of course, testers. Testers use different approaches for testing on projects.

I remember when I first started doing testing, I was drawing information from traditional books and was unnecessarily confused by some concepts that I rarely had to use. And most of the books, to my great regret, did not address the aspects and approaches to test automation. Most books on testing begin by showing how you can test a software product with basic approaches. But I do not consider the approaches and implementations of test automation at the testing stage. My main goal is to help you start building an automation testing framework using a strategy and have the basic knowledge you need to do so. This book focuses on theory rather than a lot of additional libraries, because once you have the basics, building a library and

This book is not an "exhaustive" introduction. This is a guide to getting started in building an automation testing framework. I focused on the examples. I argue that in order to start implementing an automation testing framework, you need a basic set of knowledge in testing and management to start adding value to automation projects. In fact, when I started creating the automation testing framework first, I used only the initial level of knowledge in the field of testing and development.

This book was created as a work in progress on leanpub.com . My thanks go to everyone who bought the book in its early stages, this provided the continued motivation to create something that added value, and then spends the extra time needed to add polish and readability. I am also grateful to every QA engineer that I have worked with who took the time to explain their approach. You helped me observe what a good QA engineer does and how they work. The fact that you were good, forced me to up my game and improve both my coding and testing skills. All mistakes in this book are my fault.