Test Automation Foundations

Course details

Automated testing relies on scripting and frameworks like Selenium to prove that products work as expected. Test automation is an enormous time-saver, and it's crucial to continuous integration, continuous delivery, and agile software development. If you're employed in QA, DevOps, and IT, you need to know the basics. This course covers the foundations of test automation, as well as different strategies for implementation. QA engineer Meaghan Lewis explains what kinds of tests to use, how to choose the right test tools, and how to plan and execute test automation projects. She also describes strategies to maintain automation over time: adding new tests, updating old tests, and resolving failures.

Learning objectives
The test pyramid
Unit, integration, and UI tests
Creating an automation strategy
Choosing test tools
Deciding what to automation
Identifying the risks and cost of automation
Implementing test automation
Using continuous integration
Measuring code coverage

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Build a foundation of test automation
02 - What you should know
03 - Value of automation

1. Test Types

04 - Agile Testing Quadrants
05 - The test pyramid
06 - Unit tests
07 - Integration tests
08 - UI tests

2. How to Approach Automation

09 - Get the whole team involved
10 - Make a strategy
11 - Test tools
12 - Development processes
13 - Follow test design patterns

3. Testing Tools

14 - Framework
15 - Assertion library
16 - Test results

4. Decide What to Automate

17 - Scenarios to automate
18 - Give each scenario a value
19 - Risk of automation
20 - The cost of automation
21 - Select what to automate

5. Adopt Test Automation

22 - Maintain standards
23 - Make a maintenance plan
24 - Use continuous integration
25 - Measure code coverage
26 - Share automation success

Conclusion

27 - Advance your skills

Test Automation Foundations

Authors

Meaghan Lewis