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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