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Best Books For Software Testers

Published by Dmitry Shyshkin on August 26, 2020

People often ask me, what are the best books I can recommend to read for software testers and test automation engineers.

Usually, I say that the best way to become a good QA and Test Automation engineer is not reading a book, but instead practicing and doing it. That’s why all my test automation courses are hands-on, with minimum theory.

However, it never hurts to add some theory, if it can benefit you. In this post, I will not bore you with “Top 10” books for software testers. I will recommend just two books: one on Software Testing, and another on Test Automation. Just two that will be enough to become a good Software QA and Test Automation Engineer.

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Stop automating everything with Selenium

Published by Dmitry Shyshkin on April 27, 2020

You learned Selenium WebDriver. Automated a few tests, then a few more and more. Also, you learned some advanced tricks, strategies. You are becoming more confident in using it. It feels like there is no test that you can’t automate.
All positive test cases for the regression test suite are automated. You added negative tests. You want to automate everything with Selenium because now you know how to do that.

STOP!

Selenium WebDriver is a tool for automating Web UI tests. Not everything should be automated using Selenium. Let me show you few test cases, where it’s better NOT TO USE Selenium WebDriver, even though it’s possible to do so.

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