This book is for everyone who needs to test the web. As a tester, you'll automate your tests. As a developer, you'll build more robust solutions. And as a team, you'll gain a vocabulary and a means to coordinate how to write and organize automated tests for the web. Follow the testing pyramid and level up your skills in user interface testing, integration testing, and unit testing. Your new skills will free you up to do other, more important things while letting the computer do the one thing it's really good quickly running thousands of repetitive tasks.
This book shows you how to do three
* How to write really good automated tests for the web.
* How to pick and choose the right ones.
* How to explain, coordinate, and share your efforts with others.
If you're a traditional software tester who has never written an automated test before, this is the perfect book for getting started. Together, we'll go through everything you'll need to start writing your own tests.
If you're a developer, but haven't thought much about testing, this book will show you how to move fast without breaking stuff. You'll test RESTful web services and legacy systems, and see how to organize your tests.
And if you're a team lead, this is the Rosetta Stone you've been looking for. This book will help you bridge that testing gap between your developers and your testers by giving your team a model to discuss automated testing, and most importantly, to coordinate their efforts.
The Way of the Web Tester is packed with cartoons, graphics, best practices, war stories, plenty of humor, and hands-on tutorial exercises that will get you doing the right things, the right way.
This is a great entry-level book into the world of automated testing for web applications. It is aimed at both developers and testers who haven't had experience with automated tasting - and covers various types of automated testing and how you should approach these using the pyramid model. The book is high level so if you already write automated tests it wouldn't be for you, but otherwise it's great. This would be a good book for test or dev leads that want to understand more about automated testing.
Great book on how to test web applications. If you start from scratch or need to fill gaps, this book will help you. The most important part is that it doesn’t take a big investment or much work to start. The hard part is to reflect and improve, on which this book offers many ideas. It’s a quick read that help you enormously.
It's a must read book for every tester, independently if he is a newbie or experienced tester. Jonathan guide his explanation on the automation pyramid in a upside down way, and I believe he is right. For testers it is a faster learning because they are used to working in the UI layer. But the author also explain really well the another layers in detail and with practical examples.
For developers in a agile team is a must read book too, because he show with some practical programming exercises in unit layer and mocking.
Very good intro into automated web testing. It has good points for testers, managers, and developers. It helped me consolidate my thoughts and ideas into a cohesive strategy.
A great book for a wide audience (developers and testers of all skill levels). Definitely more of an introduction than covering the advanced particulars of web testing, but this is a Very Good Thing in that it provides an introduction to less experienced developers and testers, while providing a shared language and framework of thought around web testing for more experienced developers and testers, which is extremely valuable as part of mentoring, and as part of rallying teams around shared ways of working when it comes to web testing. It will certainly get lent around my team!
A nice & humane introduction to the web automation testing - it's not a step-by-step guide, mainly an overview, that will give an understanding of the topic. But there's enough examples and code as well. I enjoyed the style of friendly explanation and reminders not to worry if you do not understand something.
I love it. The book presented some really good information and also sited valuable references for reading later. I really liked the last chapter's explanation of test driven design.
It's a good start on some of the basics of UI automation. Frankly, you can learn a lot of the stuff in this book online, but it helped me fill in some of the gaps.