Test Automation Developer Plan
Note: This plan is WIP
Start an Ultralearning Project
- Make a metalearning map
- Design drills
- Overlearn
Choose an Ultralearning project:
I want to learn:
Test Automation
1. Make an metalearning map
- Concepts
- Facts
- Procedures
What concepts do I need to understand?
- Element Locators
- POM
- WebDriver
- Selenium
- Appium
- Test Automation Pyramid
- iOS Testing considerations
- Android Testing considerations
What facts do I need to memorize?
- Writing Locators
- Web + Mobile
- dropdown menus
- checkboxes
- text fields
- buttons
- links
- alerts
- file upload widgets
- frames
- Mobile Only
- swiping
- pinching
- Web + Mobile
- Git Basic commands
- Shell/terminal basic commands
- Basic Programming Structures
What procedures do I need to practice?
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Automation Scripting
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Postman / Newman
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Charles Proxy
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Terminal/Shell commands
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CI/CD
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YAML
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Checkout: https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-ci-cd/
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Checkout: https://www.valentinog.com/blog/ci-js/
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https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions
2. Design Drills
Drill: 1. Web Browser Automation
Sites to practice against:
Restful Booker The-internet (Heroku) ToolsQA Formy ParaBank (login is john/demo) OpenCart
Drill: 2. Mobile Automation
Apps to practice against:
Drill: 3. API Automation
APIs to practice against: Swagger Petstore ParaBank Restful booker Zippopotam.us API Challenges by Evil Tester
Drill: 4. BDD driven Automation
Drill: 5. Visual Automation
Drill: 6. Build Pipelines
Drill: 7. Explore other languages and libraries
Languages
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
Libraries
- Cypress
- Nightwatch