Complete Guide to Test Automation : Techniques, Practices, and Patterns for Building and Maintaining Effective Software Projects /: Techniques, Practices, and Patterns for Building and Maintaining Effective Software Projects. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Arnon Axelrod.
• Authors: Axelrod, Arnon
• Contents: Intro; Table of Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The "Why" and the "What"; Chapter 1: The Value of Test Automation; Why Do We Need Test Automation?; From Waterfall to Agile Software Development; The Cost of Software Complexity; Maintaining a Constant Cost; Refactoring; Continuous Improvement; Chapter 2: From Manual to Automated Testing; First Attempt: Record and Playback; Getting the Most Out of Test Automation; Differences Between Manual and Automated Tests; Exploratory Testing; Considerations for Automated Testing; Preciseness MaintainabilitySensitivity to Change - Preciseness and Maintainability Put Together; Handling Failures; Length of a Test Case; Dependencies Between Tests; Logging and Evidence Collection; Trust; Chapter 3: People and Tools; Choosing the Right Tools; Who Should Write the Tests?; Promoting Manual Testers or Inexperienced Programmers to Automation Developers; Splitting the Work Between Manual Testers and Automation Programmers; Using a Dedicated Automation Team; Having Dedicated Automation Developer(s) Inside Each Team; Give the Developers the Ownership for the Automation; The Variety of Tools Classification of ToolsIDEs and Programming Language; (Unit) Testing Frameworks; Assertion Libraries; BDD-Style Frameworks; SUT Interaction Technologies; Record, Edit, Playback Tools vs. Code Libraries; Selenium; Selenium IDE; Appium; Ranorex; Microsoft Coded UI; Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional and Coded UI; Unified Functional Testing (UFT); SoapUI; Test Management Suites; Build Tools and CI/CD Pipelines; Other Considerations for Choosing Tools; Chapter 4: Reaching Full Coverage; How Do You Measure Coverage?; Percentage of Manual Test Cases Covered by Automation Percentage of Covered FeaturesPercentage of Code Coverage; Gaining Value Before Reaching Full Coverage; What Do We Do When We Have Full Coverage?; How Do We Get to 100% Coverage?; Reversing the Wheel; My Road Map to Successful Automation Project; When to Start Working on Progression; Prioritizing the Work to Fill the Regression Gap; Chapter 5: Business Processes; Running the Tests on a Regular Basis; The Simplest Approach; Nightly Runs; Handling Bugs That Are Found by the Automation; Keep the Failing Tests; Exclude the Failing Tests; Creating Work-Arounds in the Test Treating All Automation Failures as Critical BugsContinuous Integration; Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD); Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment; Canary Releases; A/B Testing; Summary; Chapter 6: Test Automation and Architecture; Test Architecture Considerations; Understanding the SUT Architecture; Back to Basics: What's a Computer System?; What's an Automated Test?; Real-World Computer Systems; Alternatives and Considerations in a Layered Architecture; The Relationships Between the Scope and the Test; Overview of the Layers; The Client Tier; The Server (Middle) Tier
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Apress
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.14; Computer science; COMPUTER SCIENCE / General; Computer software -- Testing; Computers -- Programming Languages -- General; Programming & scripting languages: general; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484238325
• Related ISBNs: 148423832X; 9781484238318; 1484238311
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 27, 2018).
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