Just Enough Software Test Automation

Preface

There has been a glut of test automation books on the market as of late. They all espouse different approaches to, and different levels of, software test automation implementation. There is even an attempt to describe an automated software testing life cycle in the most popular offering (see the Dustin reference in Chapter 2). Traditionally, authors of information systems (IS) industry publications typically try to force a hypothetical model to describe the processes we use. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. The problem is that there is no empirical evidence to support that the approaches put into practice in these models work in the real world. The majority of the recommended approaches in software testing and software development ...