Testing Automation: The Big Picture
Automated tests are crucial to reducing costs and releasing features quickly. This course will teach you how automated tests benefit the business, the different types of tests that can be created, and how they fit within wider business processes.
What you'll learn
Software can be costly to develop, error-prone, and hard to release to production. In this course, Testing Automation: The Big Picture, you'll learn the different types of automated tests that can be created, the various trade-offs involved, and how it can benefit you. First, you'll explore the potential business value of automated tests. Next, you'll cover the difference between unit integration and other types of tests, along with understanding how many of each test to write. Finally, you'll discover how tests fit in with continuous integration and deployment. When you're finished with this course, you'll have a solid understanding of how automated tests can be an enabler for increased business value, and how to start implementing or refining the use of automated tests within your organization.
Table of contents
- Introduction 2m
- Unit Tests 3m
- Integration Tests 3m
- Subcutaneous Tests 1m
- Functional User Interface Tests 2m
- Test Breadth vs. Depth 2m
- The Logical Phases of an Automated Test 2m
- Isolating Code with Mock Objects 3m
- Data-driven Tests 2m
- Business Readable Tests 4m
- How Many Tests of Each Type? 2m
- Beyond the Testing Pyramid 2m
- Characteristics of Good Automated Tests 1m
- Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Complimenting Automated Testing with Manual Testers 1m
- Exploratory Testing 3m
- Getting QA Specialists Involved 1m
- Running Tests as Part of Continuous Integration 2m
- The Role of Automated Tests in Continuous Delivery 2m
- An Overview of Test-driven Development 3m
- Advanced Testing Tools and Techniques 2m
- Summary and Further Learning 2m
Course FAQ
In Software testing, test automation is a way to test and compare the actual outcome with the expected outcome by automating testing tasks that are hard to do manually.
Some of the benefits of Automation Testing are:
- Continuous delivery and continuous testing
- It is much faster than manual testing
- Guarantees consistency
- Saves time and money
- Reliability in results
- Overall improved efficiency
This course is for anyone who wants to learn about test automation, how to properly perform it, and where it fits in your business model.
In this course you will learn about:
- The business value of automated tests
- What automated testing is
- The different types of automated tests
- Automated testing within the software development process
- Automation testing tools and techniques
- Much more
Nope! This course assumes no prior knowledge of test automation or any specific platform, programming language, or eco system.
About the author
With over 15 years of experience in both frontend and backend software development, Jason Roberts is a freelance developer, trainer, and author. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing, is the author of several books, and writes at his blog DontCodeTired.com. Jason is an open source contributor and in addition to enterprise software development, he has designed and developed Windows Store and Windows Phone apps.