Complete Guide to Test Automation: Techniques, Practices, and Patterns for Building and Maintaining Effective Software Projects

It is a great book that covers test automation for actual enterprise software. It does not concentrate on the new shiny cloud based microservice tech of the week, but instead offers a comprehensive overview of test automation for actual large brown field projects with its legacy code, messy dependencies, msi installers (yes, more than one) on an actual DVD, unmaintained and broken automated tests written by that intern from two years ago, undocumented and forgotten features that one customer might still be using somewhere, etc. It's a book for taking the messy real world and bringing it step by step closer to the unicorn world with perfect test coverage and a team that uses those tests to accelerate and drive feature development.On the negatives, I found many typos and incorrect sentence structures that break the flow of reading for me. It's not that bad, but it is annoying to stop mid-sentence and have to re-read it because a word was missing or something similar once or twice every chapter.But don't let the form keep you away from the content. It helped me answer many questions like what types of tests should we begin with (Integration tests? Synthetic tests? Acceptance tests?), what to mock and not to mock depending on the type of test, who should develop the tests in our organization, what benefits should we expect, etc. I will definitely refer to the wisdom in these pages for years to come.

Offers great examples and code. A step by step introduction to what's required to design and run your own testing structure. Shows numerous examples using VSCode to implement your own test structure in a number of languages. Wakls through good points about code and bad points. Includes a github link to copy tests directly on the way to writing your own.

Amazing book with great hands on practice examples. Would recommend to someone with bacis understanding of automation practices. Will be going back to certain chapters to refresh my memory on certain things.

Highly recommend, very clear and comprehensive. Only one small downside, could have gone deeper on the topic of unit testing.

The complete guide to test automation, greatly written, very useful, there are many examples.Everything you need to test automation!Highly recommended!

The website on which half the book is based no longer exists(I blame the other for choosing this as the SUT). A pity that the technical stuff aren't correctly explored.

Has a lot of technical info that is useful

Cobre todos os assuntos relevantes relativos à automação de testes, traz exemplos e menciona ferramentas.

So I have mixed feelings about this book.The Good:- The Software-Example is nice, and it works properly with git. I have rarely seen that good maintained examples. That said, the example itself is ... quite big, so one has to like it, but its still a pro-point.- The advices for how to get your team to testing are very good.- The advices always care about budgetThe Bad:- Some statements are really bad when it comes to e.g. what object oriented programming is. While this book is not about programing languages, it should have maybe just been left out (or quoted from something ... more reasonable)- Some of the Images are huge and the book could be a little shorter otherwise- Parts are very lengthy and redudant. It could be shorter.- There are little to no metrics presented, how to measure the effect and therefore success of testing. This should be a critical part of this book.In Addition, some books just cover some things better. E.g. When it comes to testing and the CI/CD Part one should rather read another book, such das Continous delivery, and leave this one be.This book is for someone really getting started as a non-developer. For everyone else I think it lacks depth.

Very good book for automation testers.