Test Automation Engineering Handbook. Learn and implement techniques for building robust test automation frameworks

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: The Basics
Chapter 1: Introduction to Test Automation
	Getting familiar with software testing
		Knowing the importance of testing
		Tasks involved in testing
		Testing in an world
		Defect management in testing
		Shift-Right and Shift-Left propositions
		Quality and DevOps
		Challenges in testing
		Test early, test often
	Understanding test automation
		Agile test automation
		Test automation challenges
		Finding and handling regression bugs
		Test automation metrics
	Exploring the roles in quality engineering
		Test automation engineer
		SDET
	Familiarizing yourself with common terminologies and definitions
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 2: Test Automation Strategy
	Technical requirements
	Knowing your test automation strategy
		Test automation objectives
		Gathering management support
		Defining the scope of test automation
		Test automation environment
		Implementing an Agile test automation strategy
		Reporting the test results
	Devising a good test automation strategy
		Selecting the right tools and training
		Standards of the test automation framework
		Testing in the cloud
	Understanding the test pyramid
		Unit/component tests
		Integration/API tests
		E2E/System/UI tests
		Structuring the test cycles
	Familiarizing ourselves with common design patterns
		Using design patterns in test automation
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 3: Common Tools and Frameworks
	Technical requirements
	The basic tools for every automation engineer
		The CLI
		Git
	Common test automation frameworks
		Selenium
		Appium
		Cypress
		JMeter
		AXE
	Choosing the right tool/framework
		Selecting a performance testing tool
		Selecting an API testing tool
		Selecting a web testing tool
		Mobile
		Common considerations
	Summary
	Questions
Part 2: Practical Affairs
Chapter 4: Getting Started with the Basics
	Technical requirements
	Getting more familiar with Git
		Committing a change
		Resolving merge conflicts
		Additional Git commands
	Using an IDE
		Choosing an IDE
		Downloading and setting up VS Code
	Introduction to JavaScript
		Why learn JavaScript?
		Running a JavaScript program
		JavaScript basics
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 5: Test Automation for Web
	Technical requirements
	Why Cypress?
	Installing and setting up Cypress
	Creating your first test in Cypress
		Creating arrow functions in JavaScript
		Creating callback functions in JavaScript
		Writing our first spec
		Becoming familiar with the spec structure
		Executing our first spec
	Employing selectors and assertions
		Working with selectors
		Asserting on selectors
	Intercepting API calls
	Additional configurations
	Considerations for web automation
		Limitations of Cypress
		Web automation considerations
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 6: Test Automation for Mobile
	Technical requirements
	Getting to know Appium
		What is Appium?
		Advantages of using Appium
	Knowing WebdriverIO and its advantages
	Setting up Appium and WebdriverIO
		Appium installation
		Configuring an Android emulator
		Configuring WebdriverIO with Appium
		WebdriverIO Android configuration
		Appium Inspector installation and configuration
	Writing our first mobile test
		JavaScript functions with async/await
		First Appium/WebdriverIO test
	Key considerations for mobile automation
		Areas of complexity
		iOS-specific considerations
	Optimizing our mobile automation framework
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 7: Test Automation for APIs
	Technical requirements
	Getting started with Postman
		Basics of REST API testing
		Downloading the Postman application
		Creating and managing workspaces
	Sending GET and POST requests
		Making a GET API request
		Making a POST API request
		Organizing API requests using collections
	Writing automated API tests
		Using snippets for asserting an API response
		Understanding Postman variables
		Chaining API requests
		Various ways to execute tests
	Key considerations for API automation
		Effective API test automation
		Testing GraphQL versus REST APIs
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 8: Test Automation for Performance
	Technical requirements
	Getting started with JMeter
		What is JMeter and how does it work?
		Installing JMeter
	Automating a performance test
		Building and running our first performance test
		Working with assertions
		Working with tests via the command line
		Using the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder
	Java essentials for JMeter
		A quick introduction to Java
		Using the JSR233 assertion
	Considerations for performance testing
	Summary
	Questions
Part 3: Continuous Learning
Chapter 9: CI/CD and Test Automation
	Technical requirements
	What is CI/CD?
		CI/CD process
		CI basics
		CD and deployment pipeline
	Test automation strategies for CI/CD
		Unit/component tests
		API tests
		E2E tests (API and UI)
		Smoke tests
		Addressing test failures
	GitHub Actions CI/CD
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 10: Common Issues and Pitfalls
	Recurrent issues in test automation
		Unrealistic expectations of automated testing
		Inadequate manual testing
		Not focusing on automating the right things
		A lack of understanding of the system under test
		Overlooking test maintenance
		Not choosing the right tools
		Under-investing in test environments
		Taking a siloed approach
		Not taking a lean approach
		Not having a plan for test data needs
	Test automation anti-patterns
		Coding and design anti-patterns in test automation
		Process-oriented anti-patterns in test automation
	Summary
	Questions
Appendix A:Mocking API Calls
	How API mocking works
	Mocking API calls using Postman
	Considerations for API mocking
	Summary
Assessments
	Chapter 1, Introduction to Test Automation
	Chapter 2, Test Automation Strategy
	Chapter 3, Common Tools and Frameworks
	Chapter 4, Getting Started with the Basics
	Chapter 5, Test Automation for Web
	Chapter 6, Test Automation for Mobile
	Chapter 7, Test Automation for APIs
	Chapter 8, Test Automation for Performance
	Chapter 9, CI/CD and Test Automation
	Chapter 10, Common Issues and Pitfalls
Index
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