Test Planning and Control

Test Planning is the most important phase of Software testing life cycle. Once the project and product requirements have been done, test planning starts and all the objectives, effort and cost estimates for the entire project would be determined in this phase. Major tasks in test planning should include: --Designing test strategy, including: test scope--Which components or features would...

Day21: Try and speed up your automation checks execution time and share what you tried

Automation execution doesn't matter if you only run one or two cases, but when it comes to lots of cases and frequent runs, execution time is a key point to consider! I've tried two ways to speed up my automation checks. 1, Reduce the wait time as possible as it can. So I usually use custom wait rather than implicit or explicit wait. 2, Thinking of the logic in a test procedure, when automating...

Day20: Find a visual way of representing your automated checks

I've been using ExtentReports to represent my automated checks when I do automation testing with selenium c# & Java. Test status and detail information can be displayed on the report with a chart. Samples can be found on ExtentReports website. Here is it:  http://extentreports....

Day18: Useful videos about automation

There're many videos about automation in Pluralsight website: https://www.pluralsight.com/ some course like: Automated Web Testing with Selenium https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/selenium Automated Web Testing with Selenium and WebDriver Using Java https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/automated-web-testing-selenium-webdriver-java Automated Testing: End to End https://www.pluralsight.com/...

Day17: Advice for people getting started

For those who want to get started with automation testing, some experience and opinion that I could share are: 1, Once you decide to start automation testing, find some resources to support yourself, such as online videos, training course, other automation testers who can help you. 2, Put effort but take your time. Understand the fundamental knowledge about automation testing by asking...

Day16: Share the most valuable piece of automation being used by your team

There's a selenium C# automation framework written by our ex-QA lead in the team. It followed the hybrid approach, using data-driven, POM. The structure of this framework is simple but very clear, so it's easy for everyone to use it to develop his/her automation. And is a good example for beginners to understand automation framework and learn how to create their own framework from ...
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