BUILD THAT WEB TEST AUTOMATION FRAMEWORK PART 1
Navigating Tight Timelines In the age of rapid software development, the agile age, Scrum, and DevOps, getting software properly tested within tight windows is paramount. QA is already an afterthought in most shops; also, the prevailing thought is that QA is a bottleneck in the software delivery pipeline: this forces us to interject Testing at Speed into the mix. Test automation cannot be done without tools. This blog series will not review or rate the test automation tools out there. Instead, we are building one from scratch. You’ll soon find out that budget constraints are real: recall, QA is already an afterthought, minimize the expenditure. In that light, we’re going to build one from scratch and minimize expenditure. Tools of the trade: · IDE: Eclipse (Yes, Java) · Base Framework: Selenium/WebDriver (we’ll address mobile testing in another series) · ...