• Test Automation in the Real World

  • Practical Lessons for Automated Testing
  • By: Greg Paskal
  • Narrated by: Greg Paskal
  • Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Test automation is a fantastic field of engineering. Unfortunately, most test automation efforts fail soon after being initiated. From the many promises of ease of automation to oversimplified vendor demonstrations, it's easy to spend significant time and cost pursuing test automation with little to show in the end. If only there was a way to avoid the pitfalls encountered when embarking upon test automation?

Greg Paskal shares his best insights learned as a successful test automation engineer. With over 30 years in software development and test engineering, Greg has experienced what works and what is problematic when implementing test automation across the enterprise.

Learn how to take first steps into test automation, ensuring you start with a great foundation. Understand critical steps of an automation evaluation and how this ensures you're automating the right things. Discover how removing the word "test" from "test automation" opens up opportunities to get more value from your automation tools and investment. Hear about how to hire an automation engineer to ensure you have the right talent to succeed in your automation endeavors.

Greg shares many real-world lessons learned in a way that will help you avoid making common mistakes in test automation development. Greg blends his broad range of technical talents with his passion for teaching others in an easy-to-understand format. Prepare to come away better equipped for success in the world of automated testing.

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Great resource to understand the Test Automation space and great reference!

I really enjoyed this as someone who has worked within the software development world. Many practical examples, explanations and best practices. Definitely share this with your test team, but more so with everyone else in your organization to get an understanding that Test is not just click and record! Well read by the author and again love the explanation and detail!

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Great read. Have a notebook handy.

As former app developer and now agile sw mgr, needed to get smart on streamlining the test process - our slowest part of accreditation and deployment milestone. This book was great intro for me on how to set up AT as value-added and reusable framework Thats maintainable. Great read thx.

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Real life experience; really, really valuable

This book is excellent, and I've recommended it to several colleagues. It's loaded with specific details in an actionable framework. The automation evaluation is a brilliant approach to planning or deciding the ROI is not there. The concept of 'as designed versus as discovered'; yes, I've made that mistake. Now I understand a far better approach. Test automation is extremely difficult to sustainably do well. This won't solve all your problems, but it will provide answers that only come from experience and a plan for success.

If you make a living in software testing automation, sell your bed if you have to, read this book.

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