Test Automation in the Real World: Practical Lessons for Automated Testing

by Greg Paskal (Author)

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Test automation is a fantastic technology field with incredible potential. Unfortunately, the reality is most test automation efforts fail soon after they’re initiated. From the many promises of ease of automation to over simplified vendor demonstrations, its easy to spend significant time and money pursuing test automation only to be left with spent budgets and unused software sitting on the shelf. If only there was a way to avoid the most common pitfalls encountered when embarking upon the promise of test automation? Greg Paskal shares some of his best insights learned as a successful test automation engineer. With over 30 years in software development and test engineering, Greg has experience first hand what works and what ends up 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 the critical steps of The Automation Evaluation and how this process ensures you’re automating the right things. Discover how Removing The Word Test from Test Automation opens up countless opportunities to get even greater value out of your automation tools and investment. Read about How to Hire an Automation Engineer to ensure you have the right talent to succeed in your automation endeavors. Greg Paskal has published countless white-papers and recorded podcast on the subject of Test Automation. You'll find Greg presents Real World lessons learned in a way that will help you avoid making some of the common mistakes in test automation development. Greg blends together his broad range of technical talents with his gifts and passion for teaching other in an easy to understand format. Prepare to come away better equipped for success in the world of Test Automation. These valuable lessons will apply to any test automation tool, technology and team.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (March 5, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 101 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1520745923
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1520745923
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.23 x 9 inches

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Greg Paskal is a natural innovator, pioneering new approaches across the Quality Assurance landscape. Greg enjoys mentoring others in sustainable approaches to manual and automated testing. Author of Test Automation in the Real World and countless technical publications, Greg can be heard on the TestTalks podcast with Joe Colantonio. Creator of METS, the Minimal Essential Testing Strategy, Greg’s approach is recognized and taught by ASTQB as an effective, manual testing strategy. Greg has spoken at numerous conferences including the Automation Guild, StarEast, StarWest, and QA Trailblazers. Greg founded the Open Test Technology Forum, encouraging collaboration and focusing on greater quality across the SDLC. Find Greg on LinkedIn and learn more about his work at METSTesting.com, RealWorldTestAutomation.com and RecognizeAnother.com.

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Mike Clark

Whether you are new or experienced to test automation, get this book!

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2018

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On a testing Slack channel, Greg Paskal answered a question I had as well as providing some great advice on getting started with test automation. It was valuable information and advice, so I wanted to know more about Mr. Paskal. I came across a book he wrote titled, “Test Automation in the Real World: Practical Lessons for Automated Testing” and ordered it ASAP. I read the book this past week, and it did not disappoint. The book is Paskal’s 30 plus years of experience with software development and test engineering, and what has worked for him, as well as some of the mistakes he’s seen along the way with early and inexperienced adopters of test automation. Effective approaches to planning and steps to preventing mistakes that can possibly result in brittle tests and test frameworks, are part of what this book covers. If you are new or experienced, I would highly recommend this book. Mr. Paskal is very reputable in the testing community, no to mention he has the experience to back it up.

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Mark Soderberg

A short read loaded with helpful information for anyone interested in test automation

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2019

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The book "Test Automation in the Real World" is geared more towards UI level testing and takes about an hour to read
There are several chapters and paragraphs worth highlighting and going back to every now and then. Greg has done a fantastic job of breaking down many of the important stages of starting up and maintaining a successful test system. He has provided just enough depth to address common tools, their strengths and weaknesses, and making sure you consider your test methodology and how a tool can work for you.
The book initially covers concepts like tool selection, hiring the right people, requirements for tests and how the team operates. He then expands on the ongoing automation software development process. I appreciate his candor about how hard it can be to do automation right, the patience it takes if you want to build something that lasts, and how to recognize and correct ROI robbers. Leveraging the strengths of the tools, asking the right questions, abstracting code, function libraries, etc.
From my perspective, he covers a decent amount of material at a generic level. The writing is deep enough to cause reflection, questions to formulate, and practical suggestions to have success. Perhaps the most interesting reading for me was his list of ROI robbers. I read the list before reading the in-depth descriptions in the chapter. I initially would have said thing are pretty good. Reading the actual ROI descriptions was enlightening because it caused me to reflect on our systems and realize that some things are good, but, it also pointed out where there is room for improvement.
Reading with the willingness to listen to Greg's words in this book is valuable for anyone just starting out as well as for veterans of test automation. Well done.

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Tyler Andal

A must read for anyone interested in testing.

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019

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This book is a gift for those of us of in the testing community. Greg has an awesome ability to take a complex concept and break it down into digestible chunks that are engaging and easy to understand. In this book, he takes us on a journey through his 30 years of work experiences going over the challenges and accomplishments he faced along the way. There are several parts in his journey that I can relate to my own which is an inspiration to indicate I'm on the right path in developing my craft. I highly recommend this book to anyone that has interest in the test profession. It's not often that you get a map of someone’s career that is as experienced and accomplished as Greg. It is also refreshing to read a book from someone that truly loves what they do. It will fill you up with inspiration, and ideas which you will want to bring back to your team to share.

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Sean Foley

Empty generalizations and vague unrealistic ideals

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2017

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This book is absolute rubbish. Aside from the numerous glaring grammatical errors and missing words (obviously, no one edited this before publishing), it is filled with barely technical buzz words, concepts that are high level to the point of being ridiculous, ideals that are incredibly unrealistic, and places that are insultingly trivial. If a test automation engineer needs a detailed explanation of what a function is and how it works, they're not any kind of automation engineer.

Also, I get accused of going overboard on documentation while I'm writing code but the styles presented in the book--which are presented in a "here's the extremely specific way I do things. Let me tell you about it for pages and pages!" manner--are truly gruesome.

The author feels like that one over-confident coworker that no one likes who got hired because he's family friends with the boss and is allowed to run around doing whatever he wants.

I just bought several books on Amazon for professional development and can say with honesty that I learned nothing useful from this overpriced drivel.

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Jeffrey L Dyer

Excellent Starting Place

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2021

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This book is a great starting place for automation testers. It creates a foundation upon which clean, maintainable code can be built.

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kfstr

way overpriced

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2019

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less than 100 pages of general information, nothing new or useful in it. Save your money

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Not for devs/qa

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2019

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Not at all technical or detailed. This is such a high level overview of test automation, it's more appropriate for an old school manager who has been told to modernize. If you're a developer or QA, stay away.

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Short book, but filled with great information cover to cover.

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2017

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Short book but unlike a lot of the larger publications, the information is to the point and very useful.
Our Center of Excellence team are in the process of planning a workshop for our testers and Greg's book will be one of the hubs that the course will revolve around.
If you are serious about automation in an agile world - you HAVE to read this book.

We even used Greg's phrase "what is eating your lunch" as a conversation starter and foot in the door when talking to our Agile Teams.

When asked about recommended books for our new testers - this is one of the top four I recommend.

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