Complete guide to test automation : techniques, practices, and patterns for building and maintaining effective software projects

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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. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Arnon Axelrod

Other Authors

ProQuest Ebook Central (online služba)

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

1 online zdroj (xxix, 529 stran) : ilustrace

Published

New York : Apress, [2018]

Subjects

software > vt

testování > vt

automatizace > ob

testování softwaru

automatizace testování

test automation

příručky

elektronické knihy

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Item Description

Obsahuje rejstřík

ISBN

978-1-4842-3832-5

Contents

Part I: 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 II: 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 Failures -- 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 A: Real-World Examples -- Appendix B: Cleanup Mechanism -- Appendix C: Test Automation Essentials -- Appendix D: Tips and Practices for Programmer’s Productivity