Test automation Puns

Hey everyone!

As mentioned in the title, I'm trying to set up a good foundation for an automation suite to a team that doesn't anything other than manual test cases and after creating a couple of selenium webdriver test scripts I really have no idea where to go from here.

Based on my gut feel, I know that trudging on and continuing to create meaningful automated test scripts is a good approach but eventually, I need to figure out how to integrate this existing suite into something that can be managed easily, in terms of running the tests and interpreting the results of the tests.

To provide context, the selenium scripts that we have are executed through the Nunit test explorer on visual studio, the test explorer is pretty much how we would run the tests as well as provide the test results.

I have no background on how a typical (or proper) automation suite is integrated to a teams SDLC nor how to even set it up to begin with. So was hoping if anyone could share how their automation suite is set up or if they can provide some links or insightful websites that can help set a suite up in a proper way.

Having a degree in CS, I have been in the IT industry (UK ) for close to 15 years now and the last 10 have been in the in the Test Automation Consultancy Space. I have experience setting up frameworks from scratch UI/API and am pretty decent with Selenium, Rest -Assured , Postman, Cucumber and other relevant libraries.

For the past 5 years, I have been taking it easy . Having a laid-back attitude, I haven't networked or thought out a plan /roadmap. However certain circumstances during early 2021 got me thinking in general about my future and I got fixated with this idea that QA doesn't have a future. Started updating my cloud skills and did a couple of certifications (AWS Solution Architect and GCP Associate Engineer). Post that I started to check out the job posts and realized that the QA Automation roles are flourishing and has a strong relevancy . I saw few QA openings from Facebook/Meta and Amazon and applied but didn't get a call , assuming that they must have got a barrage of applications and i don't know anyone in these companies for a referral.

Keeping in mind the considerable amount of energy and time required to polish/keep yourself updated , i am of the opinion now that either I should try to get in one of these FAANG (maybe MAANG now) as QA or pursue roles with a strong focus around cloud skills.

Having said that there could be some roles with a convergence of cloud skills and QA , which I assume is DevOps.

Also any thoughts about how to go about getting a look-in from Amazon/ Meta . Apart from that would anyone be aware of companies with a good QA culture , generous pay package and work -life balance.

Does anyone have any sort of stats that show whether demand for QA engineers is on the incline/decline? I have been looking into this subject for a while now and all I found was personal opinions, which are appreciated but not very reliable for shaping the future of my career.

How do you all report your weekly progress to the management on test automation? Just curious. Thanks in advance!

Hello good people. I need some guidance. Please help.

I am currently working as a Software QA engineer[Test Automation]. I have three years of experience in test automation. I had completed my bachelor's in Software Engineering. After that, I join a company as a manual tester. After one year, My manager switch my project and put me in a project where my role is to automate the Backend test suite with Java and bash script. till now I am working on that project. In this project, I have to maintain a CI/CD pipeline. One year ago our client move the project to AWS so I got some good exposer to AWS. I work closely with our offshore DevOps team. Which makes me interested in DevOps activity. My current skill set is below:

1. I have experience in UI and API automation with JAVA, TestNG.
2. I have basic knowledge about CI/CD pipeline and workflow.
3. I used Jenkins, Elastik, and Rundeck on daily basis.
4. Basic knowledge about AWS infra.
5. I know Python [medium level], Bash [can write script].

My Questions are below:

1. I am moving to Canada next year so it is kinda hard for me to decide which path I should go to get a Job in Canada, Automation or DevOps?
2. If I want to move to DevOps what skills or Cert I should get to land my first job?
3. I am kinda decided to go for AWS SAA or AWS Sysops certificate [To learn more about AWS infra]. Is it help me to land a job in the cloud?

Thanks, Everyone. I really appreciate your help.

I’ve been making race cars in automation for a while and I’ve started to wonder what a good comparison for a real life track that F1 or some other big race series races on. The best comparison I’ve found is the Algarve international circuit which is almost the exact same length as the test track.

How to design test cases for api automation test if there are complicated payload and lead to lots of combinations? Is there any recommande resources to learn about this?

Any recommend tool that combine both ui and api test together? Because of the design, I’ll have to call api and then take the return value to interact with ui.

For once Google suggested a decent website for me! Thought I would share because I am totally going to use these resources for practice. Enjoy!

https://automationpanda.com/2021/12/29/want-to-practice-test-automation-try-these-demo-sites/

Hey all!

I've finally finished another article on creating Test Automation Framework. This time I covered a little bit complex ticket where we're using SQL to compare data from a database with data from the web app. Without further ado, here's a link to the article: https://sdet-tomaszbuga.medium.com/test-automation-framework-selenium-with-java-magic-or-jira-selenide-complex-sql-java-225e1ba3d93e

Also, as there is something about 4-5 articles left to be written I was wondering if you guys/gals have some topics in mind that are unclear and prevent you from getting into Test Automation for real? I would like to hear that, so I could provide you with simple answers and pictures to clarify that for you.

Anyhow, all the best!

Hello! I have 2 years experience as dev. Pero I took a loooooooooong break from work. Now I'm planning to go back, and sakto may offer din sakin as QA test automation. Mukang okay naman yung perks and role description.

Meron din ba dito ng may same scenario? How was it on the first 1-2 years? Ano yung possible career path for test automation engineers in 5 years time?

Hey!

Today I released another episode (it's already the 9th) of my Test Automation Framework guide. This time I wrote about Code Review and how to refactor your code to make it more reusable and maintainable.

Here's a list of things that are covered in the article:

• What is Code Review and how it works
• How to apply Page Object Models with Selenide
• How to use Java Generics to refactor the Logging
• How to create a Fluent API
• How to create an additional layer of abstraction for better maintainability
• How to use methods chaining and Lambda expressions with Selenide
• How to create a StringUtils class to deal with the common String related issues
• What is a difference between .getText() and .innerHTML() methods
• How to refactor Test Cases with Fluent API
• How to apply Fluent API to Java Object
• How to use the IntelliJ Run Configuration to set up the Test Run

And here's a link:

https://sdet-tomaszbuga.medium.com/test-automation-framework-selenium-with-java-fear-or-code-review-and-refactoring-part-1-e4b13832ede3

All the best, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year guys and gals!

I am in a complicated situation, I joined a service based company right out of college and had been allocated to a project as QA.

That project got shutdown and somehow after denying multiple projects with manual QA role, I was finally able to get a project in the same company as an automation dev.

But it seems that in the current project all team members are pretty senior (minimum 5+ YOE to 17 YOE, whereas I have only 2 YOE, that too mostly in manual testing).

And as a result I am not being given any major work.

The other new joiners (more experienced developers) have gotten tests to automate, whereas I have been given a task to look into flaky tests.

Now, the application in concern is quite large and complicated and although I have figured out issues with some tests, I am not able to find or show results to the team and leads.

My communication skills are pretty weak and in weekly client calls (onshore devs), I am coming off as more and more weak or even stupid.

Right now, I am really confused as should I switch the company or stick with the project for a little longer (I have been in the project for 3 - 4 months now)

I believe I can do descent development or programming work although the current tasks I am getting is mostly exploration kind of work with no fixed answers, And since I've been in the project for quite a bit now, I kind of have to generate results, which I am unable to.

My main intention right now is to learn and gain experience but at the same I don't want to loose my current job and have no income with a surprise.

I am really not sure what I am asking for here, but any advice would be nice.

Thank You!

Hi all, I am wondering do you also execute your test automation scrips in your Prod/live environment? If yes, what would be the best approach to reuse the scripts we wrote for our QA in lower environments? Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions.

I have worked for several years as a programmer maintaining code and fixing bugs of ready-made applications.

Thanks,

Best Regards.

Hey!

I've just published the fourth part of my Test Automation Framework series with detailed instructions on how to configure the WebDriver, how to implement Apache's Log4j 2 and at last how to create BaseTest and BasePage (super class for the Page Object Models).

If you have any questions feel free to write here, or in the comments section on the Medium (that would be even better, so that it will be aggregated Q&A in only one place).

https://sdet-tomaszbuga.medium.com/test-automation-framework-selenium-with-java-stepping-stones-or-selenium-foundations-revisited-447b82a9da0d

All the best!