Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation (Paperback)

Software test automation has moved beyond a luxury to become a necessity. Applications and systems have grown ever larger and more complex, and manual testing simply cannot keep up. As technology changes, and more organizations move into agile development, testing must adapt—and quickly. Test automation is essential, but poor automation is wasteful—how do you know where your efforts will take you?

Authors Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster wrote the field’s seminal text, Software Test Automation, which has guided many organizations toward success. Now, in Experiences of Test Automation, they reveal test automation at work in a wide spectrum of organizations and projects, from complex government systems to medical devices, SAP business process development to Android mobile apps and cloud migrations. This book addresses both management and technical issues, describing failures and successes, brilliant ideas and disastrous decisions and, above all, offers specific lessons you can use.

Coverage includes

• Test automation in agile development
• How management support can make or break successful automation
• The importance of a good testware architecture and abstraction levels
• Measuring benefits and Return on Investment (ROI)
• Management issues, including skills, planning, scope, and expectations
• Model-Based Testing (MBT), monkey testing, and exploratory test automation
• The importance of standards, communication, documentation, and flexibility in enterprise-wide automation
• Automating support activities
• Which tests to automate, and what not to automate
• Hidden costs of automation: maintenance and failure analysis
• The right objectives for test automation: why “finding bugs” may not be a good objective
• Highlights, consisting of lessons learned, good points, and helpful tips

Experiences of Test Automation will be invaluable to everyone considering, implementing, using, or managing test automation. Testers, analysts, developers, automators and automation architects, test managers, project managers, QA professionals, and technical directors will all benefit from reading this book.

軟體測試自動化已經從奢侈品變成必需品。應用程式和系統變得越來越大且複雜，手動測試已經無法跟上。隨著技術的變化，越來越多的組織轉向敏捷開發，測試必須迅速適應。測試自動化是必要的，但是低效的自動化是浪費的，你如何知道你的努力會帶給你什麼？

Dorothy Graham和Mark Fewster是這個領域的開創性作家，他們撰寫了《軟體測試自動化》這本指南，引導許多組織走向成功。現在，在《測試自動化的經驗》這本書中，他們揭示了測試自動化在各種組織和專案中的應用，從複雜的政府系統到醫療設備，從SAP業務流程開發到Android移動應用程式和雲端遷移。這本書涵蓋了管理和技術問題，描述了失敗和成功，優秀的想法和災難性的決策，最重要的是提供了你可以應用的具體教訓。

內容包括：

- 敏捷開發中的測試自動化
- 管理支持對於成功的自動化的重要性
- 良好的測試軟體架構和抽象層次的重要性
- 衡量效益和投資回報率（ROI）
- 管理問題，包括技能、計劃、範圍和期望
- 基於模型的測試（MBT）、猴子測試和探索性測試自動化
- 在企業級自動化中標準、溝通、文件和靈活性的重要性
- 自動化支援活動
- 哪些測試應該自動化，哪些不應該自動化
- 自動化的隱藏成本：維護和故障分析
- 測試自動化的正確目標：為什麼「找到錯誤」可能不是一個好目標
- 重點，包括經驗教訓、優點和實用技巧

《測試自動化的經驗》對於考慮、實施、使用或管理測試自動化的每個人都是寶貴的資源。測試人員、分析師、開發人員、自動化人員和自動化架構師、測試經理、專案經理、品質保證專業人員和技術總監都將從閱讀這本書中受益。