In this video, we discuss the three most important books on automation testing that you should read as a quality assurance professional.

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Important links:

Experience with test automation
https://amzn.to/2XToBKM

The path of the web tester
https://amzn.to/3doNzbA

Software Testing Automation Paperback
https://amzn.to/3eBbftx

Software testing: Interview questions
https://amzn.to/3cpzTLY

Insights from software testing: A context-oriented approach
https://amzn.to/3gPcffF

Core JAVA Interview Questions
https://amzn.to/2ArGkRx

Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing
https://amzn.to/2TXlkJg

Selenium WebDriver 3 – Practical Guide
https://amzn.to/3dnjysN

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What is automated testing?
Automated testing is a software testing technique for testing and comparing the actual result with the expected result.

This can be achieved by writing test scripts or using any automation testing tool.

What is test automation?
Test automation automates repetitive tasks and other testing tasks that are difficult to perform manually.

Automation testing lifecycle
1. Scope of test automation
2. Selecting the automation tool
3. Test plan, design, strategy
4. Setting up the test environment
5. Test scripts and execution
6. Test results and reports

Why do we perform automation testing?
– Eliminate manual effort
– Ad hoc test cases must be executed to run.
– Continuously re-run the critical or important cases.
– Long manual processes are tidied up

What is the 30-Day Automation in Testing Challenge?

This video is part of the 30-day Automation in Testing challenge. Here we will learn about the different concepts related to automation testing for beginners and topics like

Functions for automated testing
Approaches to automation testing
What is automation testing
Why automated testing?
Frameworks for automated testing
Benefits of automated testing
Benefits of automated testing
Tools for automated testing
Books for testing machines.
Why you need automation testing.
What is UI testing?
Top automation blogs to read.
Automation tutorials included Selenium, Cypress, Katalon Studio and test automation frameworks and many other concepts.

Tools and services I recommend:
Some of the courses I recommend to become a better automation tester

Selenium Training and Certification –
https://scrolltest.com/go/edureka

Learn Jenkins for Quality Assurance –
https://bit.ly/learnjenkins-p1

Programming Java –
https://bit.ly/learnjava2020-p1

Test automation –
https://bit.ly/learnautomation2020

API testing –
https://www.learnapitesting.com

Cypress tutorial with LIVE projects –
https://cypresstutorial.com

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